Mosaic bead

233MSA 

Byzantine/Islamic checkerboard glass bead

Date: 8-9 century

Mosaic cane glass

Barrel-shape bead's matrix is formed by folding a premanufactured red mosaic strip over a rod. Central band is a multicolored micro-mosaic cane checkerboard.
Fold is clearly visible. Intact, good condition.

Height 9 mm, diameter 8 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