CIRCA MID 6TH-EARLY 7TH CENTURY A.D.

The bell-shaped beaker is the most characteristic form of Merovingian glass. The straighter walls of this beaker would indicate a slightly later date to the more concave types. The base is centered by an applied opaque white knobbed terminal and there is an applied thin opaque white trail wound spirally below the rim. Cf. E. M. Stern, Roman, Byzantine, and Early Medieval Glass, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2001, no. 198 for a similar example.