Fragment of Snake
Fragment of Snake
Place of OriginAncient Rome, Eastern Mediterranean or Italy
DateProbably first century BCE to first century CE
DimensionsMax L: 3 in. (7.6 cm); Max W: 5/8 in. (1.6 cm); Depth: 1/2 in. (1.2 cm)
MediumMarbled and molded mosaic glass: free-modeled with tools, applied marvered threads, stress marks on the underside.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1980.1207
Not on View
DescriptionLight blue ground with curving, longitudinal threads of pale purple, opaque yellow, opaque white, and opaque turquoise-blue marvered into the upper surface.
Curvilinear fragment of body of snake. Body hemispherical in cross section; underside flat but uneven.
Published ReferencesGrose, David F., Early Ancient Glass: Core-Formed, Rod-Formed, and Cast Vessels and Objects from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Roman Empire, 1600 B. C. to A. D. 50, New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, 1989, cat. no. 678, p. 372.Probably first century BCE to first century CE
Probably first century BCE to first century CE
Probably Late Helladic III, about the fourteenth to twelfth century BCE
Late 6th -early 5th century BCE
Late 6th - 5th century BCE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
First quarter of the first century CE
Mid-fourteenth to late thirteenth century BCE
New Kingdom, Eighteenth Dynasty, about 1412-1350 BCE
18th Dynasty, about 1400-1350 BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
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