Middle Eastern and Venetin Glass Beads — Augusto Panini

Dimension:

22X18

Decoration:

Eye Beads

Processing:

Mosaic Beads

Book Reference:

fig.52 | p.53

Forty large mosaic eye bead with circular cross section cane insets (mourfia fakurun) found in an archaeological site at Takamba (Hombori) together with other beads that denote the high social and economic levels of the site’s inhabitants. A gold dinar came to light at the same site, and is a copy of an eighth-century Abbasid coin (Find IX).

Biggest Bead Dimension:

22X18

Decoration:

Eye Beads

Processing:

Mosaic Beads

Book Reference:

fig.114 | p.286

Strand of forty large mosaic eye beads with circular cross section cane insets (mourfia fakurun) found in an archaeological site at Takamba (Hombori) together with other beads that denote the high social and economic levels of the site’s inhabitants. A gold dinar came to light at the same site, and is a copy of an eighth-century Abbasid coin (Find IX).