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Object NameLintel with Cobras
Made FromGlass
Date299 BCE-99 CE
Place MadeRoman Empire; Egypt
TechniqueMosiac or millefiori techniques
SizeOverall H: 1.1 cm, W: 8.9 cm, D: 0.6 cm
Accession Number59.1.94 E
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
Designs in Miniature: The Story of Mosaic Glass
On ViewAncient Gallery
Physical DescriptionLintel with Cobras. Mosaic glass or millefiori elements. Mosaic glass strip (formerly identified as a sawtooth pattern with ivy leaf along one edge). Actually this is the lintel of a miniature shrine with twenty-three cobras forming the horizontal element, their heads are roughly cut in a sawtooth pattern from a monochrome turquoise band which runs above a series of raised bodies delineated with a scale pattern in yellow on a field of blue and turquoise in a long rectangular red matrix.Provenance
Source
Ray Winfield Smith
(American, 1897-1982) - 1959-07-27
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