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Object NameFragment with Vegetal Ornament
Made FromGlass
Date800-999
Techniqueblown, slant-cut, linear-cut
SizeOverall H: 3.3 cm
Accession Number76.1.284
Credit LineGift of Carl Berkowitz and Derek Content
Curatorial Area(s)
Physical DescriptionAlmost colorless, with yellowish tinge. Blown; slant- and linear-cut. Fragment from wall (Th. 0.1 cm) of vessel with slightly convex profile. Decoration consists of small part of frieze containing symmetrical arrangement of two stems, side by side, which diverge slightly toward the ends and terminate in outward-pointing slant-cut volutes; each stem also has at least one other outward-pointing volute. Single horizontal linear cut defines top(?) of frieze.
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