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Object NameFragment of Dish

Made FromGlass

Date275-399

Techniqueblown, wheel-cut, ground

SizeOverall H: 6.2 cm

Accession Number59.1.136

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Exhibitions

Glass from the Ancient World

Place Made

Roman Empire; Eastern Mediterranean

Physical DescriptionColorless bubbly glass with brownish tinge; blown; wheel-cut and ground. Shallow dish; rim ground flat; wall curves downward and then sharply inward; decoration on outside linear- and facet-cut with cuts left rough: fragmentary retrograde inscription in Greek capital letters with prominent serifs; iota, omega, alpha, nu, nu, eta (ioanne[s]); omega is in form of W, alpha has V-shaped cross bar; parts of unidentified motifs above and below.

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