CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C-1ST CENTURY A.D.

Spirally twisted rods of translucent and composite colored glass was generally employed as cosmetic applicators or stirring rods, but they are also documented as having an architectural application as vertical decorative elements on interior pilasters highlighting walls decorated with mosaic compositions or revetment panels. For a fragment of an engaged pilaster fragment employing similar glass rods, formerly of the Sangiorgi Collection, see Goldstein, Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, p. 263-4, no. 791.