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Medieval glass beads: Byzantine /Islamic checkerboard mosaic glass bead,7-9 cent
Medieval glass beads: Byzantine /Islamic checkerboard mosaic glass bead,7-9 cent
Medieval glass beads: Byzantine /Islamic checkerboard mosaic glass bead,7-9 cent

Medieval glass beads: Byzantine /Islamic checkerboard mosaic glass bead,7-9 cent

$ 184.8

Availability: 100 in stock
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Condition: Used
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: Unknown
  • Material: Glass
  • Color: Multi-Color

    Description

    Byzantine / Islamic checkerboard glass bead
    Date: 7-9 century
    Mosaic cane glass
    Barrel-shape bead's matrix is formed by folding a premanufactured red mosaic strip over a rod. Central band is a multicolored micro-mosaic cane checkerboard.
    Fold is clearly visible. Intact, good condition.
    Height 9 mm, diameter 9 mm
    For published archaeological examples see:
    - V.Kovalevskaya, Komputernaya obrabotka massovogo arhaeologicheskogo materiala is rannesrednevekovih pamyatnikov Evrasii, Moscow, 2000, p. 94 #297
    - A.Panini, Middle Eastern and Venetian Glass Beads, Skira, 2007, p. 60 #91, 92