Mosaic bead

244MSM
Byzantine / Islamic mosaic glass beads
Date: 7 - 9 century
Mosaic glass

Oval in cross-section, the bead is a perforated section of premanufactured mosaic cane, consisted of multiple green and light green single glass canes, placed around yellow in red cane.
Intact, good condition. Height 18 mm, diameter 11 mm

For published similar beads see:
- V.Kovalevskaya, Komputernaya obrabotka massovogo arhaeologicheskogo materiala is rannesrednevekovih pamyatnikov Evrasii, Moscow, 2000, p.75, p.93 # 227, 254