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Object NameFragment with Greek Inscription

Made FromGlass

Date175-299

Techniqueblown, wheel-cut, engraved

SizeOverall Diam: 6.7 cm, Th: 0.3 cm

Accession Number59.1.138

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Exhibitions

Glass from the Ancient World

Place Made

Roman Empire; Eastern Mediterranean

Physical DescriptionTransparent greenish-colorless glass with minute bubbles; blown, wheel-cut, engraved. Fragment from side of deep, perhaps hemispherical, bowl; decorated on exterior with head and shoulders of beardless male, shown in profile facing left; farther towards left and above, oval motif attached by two straight parallel lines to part of another motif, also with two parallel lines; to left of head, two lines of inscription in Greek capitals, retrograde (i.e. meant to be read from interior of bowl): iota, pi, pi, omicron [ /tau, omicron, sigma, lppo[ ]tos, perhaps Hippolytos.
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