Genuine Byzantine / Islamic mosaic glass bead, 7-9 century

Description

Byzantine / Islamic mosaic cane glass bead
Date: 7- 9 century
Mosaic cane glass
Perforated section of premanufactured mosaic cane, consisted  of multiple green and light green single glass canes, placed around yellow in red cane.
Intact, very good condition.
Height 15 mm, diameter 9 mm
For published archaeological examples in museum collections see:
- Ve´ronique 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- cat.276-4 (with black canes)
-  V.Kovalevskaya, Komputernaya obrabotka massovogo arhaeologicheskogo materiala is rannesrednevekovih pamyatnikov Evrasii, Moscow, 2000, p.75, p.93 #254
-  A.Panini, Middle Eastern and Venetian Glass Beads, Skira, 2007, p. 58 #83, p. 88, p. 115