Mosaic bead

261MSM
Byzantine / Islamic/ Viking mosaic glass bead
Date: 7-9 century
Mosaic cane glass

Perforated section of premanufactured in several stages mosaic cane, consisted  of multiple red, white, blue, green and yellow single glass canes, placed around green glass cane.
Intact, perfect condition.
Height 10 mm. Diameter 11 mm.

For published archaeological examples see:

- Tombodama Art Museum, 1996, p.71 cat. 82.

- J. Callmer,Trade beads and bead trade in Scandinavia ca. 800-1000 A.D., 1977, col. pl. III, E1600

- V.Kovalevskaya, Komputernaya obrabotka massovogo arhaeologicheskogo materiala is rannesrednevekovih pamyatnikov Evrasii, Moscow, 2000, p.55, p.92 #187

 - A.Panini, Middle Eastern and Venetian Glass Beads, Skira, 2007, p. 85, pl.XI top left