Mosaic bead

335MSM
Byzantine / Islamic mosaic glass bead
Date: VII-IX 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, good condition.
Height 10 mm. Diameter 10 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