Ancient glass beads: genuine rare Viking / Byzantine/Islamic eye bead, 8-9 cent

Description

Viking / Byzantine / Islamic mosaic
bead
Date: 8- 9 century
Mediterranean
Region,
Scandinavia, Central Europe,
Britannia
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 10 mm, diameter 7 mm
For published archaeological examples see:
- See BBC news publication of a "rare find" of the same bead in York:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-15403877
"Archaeologists believe it was made in the eastern Mediterranean between the 8th and 12th century and similar beads have been found in Viking graves in Scandinavia.
Mr Connelly said " it was a rare find in the UK and raised a number of questions."
- 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