Viking pendant

426MSM
Byzantine / Viking mosaic glass pendant
Date: 9 century
Mosaic glass

Perforated section of premanufactured mosaic cane, consisted  of multiple green and yellow single glass canes around blue/white/red/yellow mosaic core.

Height 16 mm, 11 x 4 mm. Intact, good condition.

For published similar beads in museum collections see:

-H. Arbman, Arbman, Holger (1940) Birka 1 Die Graber: Tafeln. [The Graves: Plates] Birka, Kungliga Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, Taf. 122, 10-d.

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

-  V.Kovalevskaya, Komputernaya obrabotka massovogo arhaeologicheskogo materiala is rannesrednevekovih pamyatnikov Evrasii, Moscow, 2000, p.93 #223 (mosaic cane).