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

Description

Byzantine / Islamic mosaic glass bead
Date: 7-9 century
Mosaic cane glass
Perforated section of premanufactured mosaic cane, consisted of multiple black and white single glass canes, placed around yellow in red glass cane.
Height 12 mm, diameter 11 mm. Intact, good condition.
For published archaeological examples in museum collections see:
- Véronique Arveiller-Dulong, Marie-Dominique Nenna. Les Verres antiques du Musée du Louvre III : Parure, instruments et éléments d’incrustation, Paris, Éditions du Louvre, Somogy, 2011, p. 204: 276-4
- V.Kovalevskaya, Komputernaya obrabotka massovogo arhaeologicheskogo materiala is rannesrednevekovih pamyatnikov Evrasii, Moscow, 2000, cat. 228-230