Bead's matrix is made up of 8 sections of premanufactured blue transparent glass canes with blue-in-white centers. Seams are clearly visible. Intact, good condition.
Height 9 mm, diameter 10 mm.
Published archaeological examples of similar beads:
- J. Callmer,Trade beads and bead trade in Scandinavia ca. 800-1000 A.D., 1977, color pl.4: G012
- A. Panini, Middle Eastern and Venetian Glass Beads, Skira, 2007, p. 84.