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bowl(?); medallion

Object Type: bowl (?); medallion
Museum number: 1856,0425.1
Description: Diminutive medallion, probably from the bottom of a bowl; glass; with dark blue protecting glass; gilded decoration; bust of St Paul, youthful and beardless, in tunic and pallium; in the field an inscription.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 3rdC-5thC
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Cologne (city), grave (?) (?); Found/Acquired: Rome (city), catacomb (?) (?)
Materials: glass; gold
Technique
Dimensions: Diameter: 0.94 inches
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Dalton 1901 / Catalogue of Early Christian Antiquities and Objects from the Christian East in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum (635); Vopel 1899 / Die altchristlichen Goldgläser (320); Howells 2015 / A Catalogue of the Late Antique Gold Glass in the British Museum (p.13-14, p.20, p.26, p.30, p.31, table.1, p.34, table.4, p.36, p.37, table.6, p.38, p.70, p.71-88, p.71-74, p.71-72, p.72, pl.35, p.163) (Cat.1); Finney 2003 / Abbé James Hamilton: Antiquary, Patron of the Arts, Victorian Anglo-Catholic (27)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: saint/martyr; new testament
Associated names
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1856
Acquisition notes: From the Hamilton Palace Collection.
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1856,0425.1