Viking bead

239MSM

Viking / Byzantine / Islamic mosaic glass bead

Date: VII-IX century

Mosaic cane glass

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

For published archaeological examples in museum collections see:

- R. Andrae, Mosaikaugenperlen. Untersuchungen zur Verbreitung und Datierung karolingerzeitlicher Millefioriglasperlen in Europa. Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica 4, 1973, pl.4 # 0210.

- J. Callmer,Trade beads and bead trade in Scandinavia ca. 800-1000 A.D., 1977, pl.IV: J001

- Ve´ronique Arveiller-Dulong, Marie-Dominique Nenna.  Les Verres antiques du Musée du Louvre III : Parure, instruments et éléments d’incrustation, Paris, Éditions du Louvre, Somogy, 2011, p. 204- cat.276-4 (with black canes) 

-  V.Kovalevskaya, Komputernaya obrabotka massovogo arhaeologicheskogo materiala is rannesrednevekovih pamyatnikov Evrasii, Moscow, 2000, #214, p.93 #254