drinking-vessel

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Object Type
Museum number: 1859,0618.1
Description: Bottom of a drinking vessel; glass; with low foot-rim; gilded design of a female bust in tunic and mantle, holding a volumen; an inscription in the circular border.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 3rdC-5thC
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Rome (city), catacomb
Materials: glass; gold
Technique
Dimensions: Diameter: 3.10 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 (607); Vopel 1899 / Die altchristlichen Goldgläser (100); Howells 2015 / A Catalogue of the Late Antique Gold Glass in the British Museum (p.14, p.20, p.24, p.30, p.31, table.1, p.32, table.3, p.35, table.5, p.39, p.57, p.114-131, p.117-119, p.118, pl.98, fig.21, p.166) (Cat.32)
Location: Not on display
Condition: Upper layer of glass is imperfect and both surfaces highly irridescent; there are three layers so the design must have already been protected when the bottom was fused to the bowl.
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1859
Acquisition notes: Acquired in Rome from Baneggio.
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1859,0618.1
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: OA.863 (marked on object.)

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