Bead's matrix is formed by folding a premanufactured mosaic strip over a rod. Composed of applied alternatively square sections: concentric with red center and quatrefoil leaves. Red caps at each end.
Intact, very good condition.
Height 12 mm, diameter 13 mm
For comparable beads in the museum collection, refer to the following:
-Koch, Ursula. Das Reihengräberfeld bei Schretzheim. Berlin, 1977. Teil 1-Text ;Teil 2- Katalog und Tafeln, taf. 6- M27
-Wieczorek A., Perin P. Die Franken. Philipp von Zabern, 1996, vol. II p. 1005, cat. 6.j
-Véronique Arveiller-Dulong, Marie-Dominique Nenna. Les Verres antiques du Musée du Louvre III : Parure, instruments et éléments d’incrustation, Paris, Éditions du Louvre, Somogy, 2011, p. 205: 277-21