Fragment of Snake
Fragment of Snake
Place of OriginAncient Rome, Eastern Mediterranean or Italy
DateProbably first century BCE to first century CE
DimensionsMax L: 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm); Max W: 3/4 in. (1.9 cm)
MediumMarbled and molded mosaic glass. Free-modeled with tools, applied marvered threads.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1980.1206
Not on View
DescriptionGolden-brown ground with curving longitudinal threads of opaque white, opaque yellow, and opaque turquoise-blue marvered into the upper surface.
Curvilinear fragment of body of snake. Body subhemispherical; underside flat.
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. 680, p. 372.Probably first century BCE to first century CE
Probably first century BCE to first century CE
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, probably reigns of Amenhotep III-Akhenaten, about 1400-1350 BCE
Mid-fourteenth to late thirteenth century BCE
New Kingdom, Eighteenth Dynasty, about 1412-1350 BCE
New Kingdom, late 18th or 19th Dynasty, about 1400-1225 BCE
18th Dynasty, about 1400-1350 BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd centuries BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, probably the reigns of Amenhotep III-Akenaten, about 1400-1350 BCE
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, About 1412-1350 BCE
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