Mosaic bead

231MSA 

Medieval checkerboard glass bead

Date: 8-9 century

Mosaic cane glass

Barrel-shape bead's matrix is formed by folding a premanufactured mosaic strip over a rod. Central band is a multicolored micromosaic cane checkerboard.

Intact, good condition.
Height 8 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