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Medieval mosaic cane glass bead MSM14Medieval mosaic cane glass bead MSM14
Description

14MSM
Byzantine / Islamic mosaic glass bead
Date: VII-IX century
Mosaic cane glass

Perforated section of premanufactured in several stages mosaic cane, consisted  of multiple green and light green single glass canes, placed around yellow in red glass cane.

Intact, perfect condition.
Height 12 mm. Diameter 13 mm.

For published archaeological examples see:
- V.Kovalevskaya, Komputernaya obrabotka massovogo arhaeologicheskogo materiala is rannesrednevekovih pamyatnikov Evrasii, Moscow, 2000, cat. 232
- A.Panini, Middle Eastern and Venetian Glass Beads, Skira, 2007, p. 58 #83, p.115