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Object NameFragment with Vegetal Scroll, Half-Palmette, and Inscription

Made FromGlass

Date900-999

Techniqueblown, relief-cut

SizeOverall H: 5 cm

Accession Number76.1.257

Credit LineGift of Carl Berkowitz and Derek Content

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Ancient

Physical DescriptionAlmost colorless, with yellowish tinge. Blown; relief-cut. Fragment of vessel with straight, vertical or tapering wall (TTh. 0.2 cm) decorated in relief (Th. 0.1 cm). Decoration consists of parts of two horizontal elements, one above other: (above) elaborate vegetal scroll extending from left to right with, on left, downward-pointing tendril that terminates in sketchy half-palmette and, on right, upward-pointing tendril that terminates in well-formed half-palmette; (below) small part of foliated Kufic inscription, part of which is embellished with half-palmette. Inscription. Stem, tendrils, and letters are notched; half-palmettes are embellished with pairs of short, incised lines.
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