Mosaic bead

237MSM
Byzantine / Islamic mosaic glass bead
Date: 8-9 century
Mosaic glass

Elongated bead's matrix is formed by folding a premanufactured mosaic strip over a rod. Composed of transverse and longitudinal sections of multicolored mosaic canes.  
Intact, very good condition.

Height 19 mm, diameter 7 mm

For published archaeological examples see:

- V.Kovalevskaya, Komputernaya obrabotka massovogo arhaeologicheskogo materiala is rannesrednevekovih pamyatnikov Evrasii, Moscow, 2000, p. 94 #268, 273
- A.Panini, Middle Eastern and Venetian Glass Beads, Skira, 2007, p. 88 # XVIII, XIX

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