1st-2nd century AD. A glass stirring rod with cylindrical stem and oval-shaped ring formed from twisted yellow-green glass with a strand of white-grey, flat, discoid base to the other end. Cf. Carnegie, B.O., Ancient Glass, Pittsburgh, 1980, item 50, for a comparable example.33 grams, 21.5cm (8 1/2"). From a London gentleman, formerly in a Swiss collection 1990s.