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Mosaic bead
Sales price $150.00
Medieval glass bead with mosaic checkerboard band 421MSM 
Description
Medieval checkerboard glass bead
421MSA
Medieval checkerboard glass bead
Date: 8-9 century
Mosaic cane glass
Barrel-shape bead's matrix is formed by folding a premanufactured green mosaic strip over a rod. Central band is a multicolored micro-mosaic cane checkerboard.
Intact, good condition.
Height 9 mm, diameter 10 mm
For published archaeological examples see:
- V.Kovalevskaya, Komputernaya obrabotka massovogo arhaeologicheskogo materiala is rannesrednevekovih pamyatnikov Evrasii, Moscow, 2000, p. 94 #297
- A.Panini, Middle Eastern and Venetian Glass Beads, Skira, 2007, p. 60 #91, 92