Mosaic bead

385MSM
Byzantine / Islamic mosaic glass bead
Date: 8-9 century
Mosaic glass

Flattened bead's matrix is made up of sections of premanufactured mosaic cane, consisted of green and light green canes, positioned around red in green center in orange. 
Intact, very good condition. Rare.
Height 14 mm, length 12 mm, width 6 mm

For similar published beads in museum collections see:

-  V.Kovalevskaya, Komputernaya obrabotka massovogo arhaeologicheskogo materiala is rannesrednevekovih pamyatnikov Evrasii, Moscow, 2000, p.78 #263