Mosaic eye

28MSM
Byzantine / Islamic  mosaic eye bead
Date: 8 - 9 century
Mosaic cane glass

Bead's matrix is made up of multiple sections of premanufactured yellow glass canes with blue/white/red centers.  
Intact, good condition.
 
Height 9 mm, diameter 11 mm.

For published similar beads see:

- J. Callmer, Trade beads and bead trade in Scandinavia ca. 800-1000 A.D., 1977, col. pl. I, B2410

-  V.Kovalevskaya, Komputernaya obrabotka massovogo arhaeologicheskogo materiala is rannesrednevekovih pamyatnikov Evrasii, Moscow, 2000, p.38, p.91 #149

-  A.Panini, Middle Eastern and Venetian Glass Beads, Skira, 2007, p. 115, p. 121