Photo detail
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).