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fragment

Object NameFragment with Bird

Made FromGlass

Date800-999

Techniqueblown, relief-cut

SizeOverall H: 3.5 cm, Rib Diam (estimate): 7 cm

Accession Number76.1.219

Credit LineGift of Carl Berkowitz and Derek Content

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Ancient

Physical DescriptionColorless. Blown; relief-cut. Fragment of beaker(?). Wall straight (Th. 0.1 cm) and either vertical or slightly tapered. Decorated in relief (Th. 0.1–0.15 cm): horizontal rib, which presumably formed upper border of frieze; below this, part of bird shown in profile, facing left. Bird has long beak, small head with eye represented by countersunk dot, crest, long neck, and body shown in outline; in its beak, large, perhaps U-shaped object, also shown in outline. Rib and outlines of head, body, and U-shaped object are notched; neck has zigzag pattern of cuts.
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