Mosaic bead

402MSM
Byzantine / Islamic / Viking mosaic glass bead
Date: 7-9 century
Mosaic glass

Flattened bead's matrix is made up of sections of premanufactured mosaic cane, consisted of blue and light blue canes, positioned around yellow in red center. 
Intact, good condition. Height 12 mm, length 10 mm, width 5 mm

For similar published beads in museum collections see:

-R. Andrae, Mosaikaugenperlen. Untersuchungen zur Verbreitung und Datierung karolingerzeitlicher Millefioriglasperlen in Europa. Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica 4, 1973, pl.10 

- J. Callmer,Trade beads and bead trade in Scandinavia ca. 800-1000 A.D., 1977, pl.IV: H001 (mosaic cane).

- V. Kovalevskaya, Komputernaya obrabotka massovogo arhaeologicheskogo materiala is rannesrednevekovih pamyatnikov Evrasii, Moscow, 2000, #257-259.