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

Description

Byzantine / Islamic mosaic cane glass bead
Date: 7- 9 century
Mosaic cane glass
Bead's matrix is made up of sections of premanufactured mosaic cane with yellow-in-red center.
Intact, excellent condition.
Height 11 mm, diameter 13 mm.
For published similar beads see:
-  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