Mosaic bead

115MSM
Mosaic bead
Byzantine or Islamic
Date: 9-10 century

Bead's matrix is formed by folding a premanufactured mosaic strip over a rod. Yellow and red glass trails are dragged in opposite directions to form zigzags.Yellow caps around bead ends.
Intact, very good condition.

Height 25 mm, diameter 15 mm

For published archaeological examples see:
-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. 86: #152-9