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Medieval
Byzantine / Viking glass bead
Date: 8th- 9th century
Mosaic cane glass
Globular perforated section of premanufactured mosaic cane, consisted of multiple green and yellow single glass canes.
Height 11 mm, diameter 13 mm. Intact, good condition.
For published similar beads in museum collections see:-H. Arbman, Arbman, Holger (1940) Birka 1 Die Graber: Tafeln. [The Graves: Plates] Birka, Kungliga Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, Taf. 122, 12-f.
- V.Kovalevskaya, Komputernaya obrabotka massovogo arhaeologicheskogo materiala is rannesrednevekovih pamyatnikov Evrasii, Moscow, 2000, p.93 #225.
