Viking bead

3MSM
Byzantine / Viking / Islamic mosaic glass bead
Date: 7-9 century
Mosaic cane glass

Perforated section of premanufactured mosaic cane, consisted  of multiple green and yellow single glass canes.
Height 11 mm, diameter 13 mm.

For published similar beads in museum collections see:

-H. Arbman, Arbman, Holger (1940) Birka 1 Die Graber: Tafeln. [The Graves: Plates] Birka, Kungliga Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, Taf. 122, 12-f.

-  V.Kovalevskaya, Komputernaya obrabotka massovogo arhaeologicheskogo materiala is rannesrednevekovih pamyatnikov Evrasii, Moscow, 2000, p.93 #225.