Cylinder
Cylinder
Place of Originpossibly Syria, probably Syro-Palestine; possibly Italy
DateLate nineteenth or first decade of twentieth century
DimensionsH: 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm); Diam: 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.100
Not on View
DescriptionSolid cylinder. Semitranslucent medium blue ground. Top of object highly irregular with an uneven, protruding edge around half of the cylinder and a deep pointed, tooled cavity near the center; uneven vertical sides with a slight upward taper; uneven rounded bottom. Two crudely formed medium blue masks representing male faces set on opposite sides near the top. Surrounding each mask are five square or rectangular impressions left by tabs used to hold the mask molds in place during manufacture. Cast Glass; solid casting in a two- or three-piece mold; irregular vertical seams visible. Semitranslucent medium blue ground.
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. 713, p. 394.
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
about 350-300 BCE
Probably early third century
Probably second quarter of the first century
12th-11th century BCE
Late 16th - 13th century BCE (or modern)
2nd through mid- 1st century BCE
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