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

$ 39.6

Availability: 91 in stock
  • Color: Multi-Color
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Modified Item: No
  • Condition: Used
  • Featured Refinements: Ancient Bead
  • Material: Glass
  • Handmade: Yes
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: Unknown

    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