Glass spindle whorl
Translucent pale yellow green, with opaque white trail.
Lentoid body, with rounded outer edge; vertical hole, larger on bottom; tooling marks around hole on bottom
Trail applied across both surfaces and tooled to form wavy star pattern.
Intact; dulling, creamy weathering, and faint iridescence.
Made by winding trail in a spiral around rod.
Lentoid body, with rounded outer edge; vertical hole, larger on bottom; tooling marks around hole on bottom
Trail applied across both surfaces and tooled to form wavy star pattern.
Intact; dulling, creamy weathering, and faint iridescence.
Made by winding trail in a spiral around rod.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass spindle whorl
- Period: Migration
- Date: ca. 5th–7th century CE
- Culture: Possibly Merovingian
- Medium: Glass; rod-formed, trailed, and tooled
- Dimensions: Diam.: 1 9/16 in. (4 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
- Object Number: 91.1.1511
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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