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Mosaic bead

Sales price $250.00
Medieval glass bead with mosaic checkerboard band, 8-9 century
Medieval glass bead with mosaic checkerboard band, 8-9 centuryMedieval mosaic glass bead with checkerboard band, 8-9 centuryMedieval green glass bead with mosaic checkerboard, 8-9 century
Description

232MSA 

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 10 mm, diameter 9 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