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Ancient glass beads: Byzantine / Islamic mosaic cane glass bead, 7-9 century

$ 25.34

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Color: Multi-Color
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: Unknown
  • Handmade: Yes
  • Time Period Manufactured: Pre-1400
  • Condition: Used
  • Modified Item: No
  • Material: Glass

    Description

    Byzantine / Islamic mosaic glass bead
    Date: 7-9 century
    Mosaic cane glass
    Perforated section of premanufactured mosaic cane, consisted  of multiple green and yellow single glass canes.
    Height 12 mm, diameter 11 mm. Intact, good condition.
    For published archaeological examples see:
    - Reinhard Andrae, Mosaikaugenperlen. Untersuchungen zur Verbreitung und Datierung karolingerzeitlicher Millefioriglasperlen in Europa. Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica 4 (1973), 1975, pp. 114, taf. 10.
    - V.Kovalevskaya, Komputernaya obrabotka massovogo arhaeologicheskogo materiala is rannesrednevekovih pamyatnikov Evrasii, Moscow, 2000, cat. 225