Glass whorl or bead
Translucent light green; trails in opaque white.
Flattened biconical shape; vertical hole with rounded edge of one side and rough lip on the other.
Three separate trails applied spirally and marvered into surface: on one side, spiral tooled into large scallop pattern of six loops; on the other, one trail around outer edge as narrow spiral tooled into thirteen swags, and the other tooled into a scallop pattern of four loops.
Intact; slight pitting and dulling, and faint iridescent weathering.
Flattened biconical shape; vertical hole with rounded edge of one side and rough lip on the other.
Three separate trails applied spirally and marvered into surface: on one side, spiral tooled into large scallop pattern of six loops; on the other, one trail around outer edge as narrow spiral tooled into thirteen swags, and the other tooled into a scallop pattern of four loops.
Intact; slight pitting and dulling, and faint iridescent weathering.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass whorl or bead
- Date: 5th–7th century CE
- Culture: Frankish
- Medium: Glass; rod-formed and trailed
- Dimensions: Diam.: 1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.411
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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Possibly Carthaginian
ca. 4th century BCE
Helladic, Mycenaean
ca. 1370–1200 BCE
Roman, Eastern Mediterranean
1st century BCE–1st century CE
Roman, Eastern Mediterranean
1st century CE
Roman, Eastern Mediterranean
1st century BCE–1st century CE
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