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Object NameFused Mosaic Inlay Fragment

Made FromGlass

Date25 BCE-99 CE

Techniquepolished, mosaic glass technique

SizeOverall H: 2.9 cm, W: 3.1 cm, Th: 7 mm

Accession Number54.1.26

Credit LineGift of Fahim Kouchakji

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Exhibitions

Glass from the Ancient World

Place Made

Roman Empire; possibly Egypt; possibly Italy

Physical DescriptionFused Mosaic Inlay Fragment. Opaque green glass matrix with translucent amethyst backing, canes of opaque yellow, opaque white and opaque red, apparently polished; mosaic glass technique. Fragment of long rectangular strip with repetitive floral motif; preserves lower section of three stylized leaves in yellow outlined with amethyst and emerging from a stylized rectangular sepal composed of alternating bands of amethyst and white outlined in amethyst; below this the upper portion of two anthers in yellow with red centers are preserved above the break in the lower edge.
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