bowl

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Object Type
Museum number: 1859,0618.3
Description: Fragment of bowl; glass; gilding much defaced; a beardless man wearing a toga and holding a short curved staff; in the field to right of head, is a wreath; round the figure and within a rectangular border is an inscription.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 3rdC-5thC
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Rome (city), catacomb
Materials: glass; gold
Technique
Dimensions: Length: 2.50 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 (604); Vopel 1899 / Die altchristlichen Goldgläser (72); Howells 2015 / A Catalogue of the Late Antique Gold Glass in the British Museum (p.14, p.20, p.26, p.30, p.31, table.1, p.32, table.3, p.33, p.35, table.5, p.39, p.40, p.57, p.60, p.61, p.64, p.65, p.69, p.114-131, p.119-121, p.119, pl.99, p.120, fig.23a-b, p.166) (Cat.33)
Location: Not on display
Condition: The protecting glass has gone and the design is much worn.
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1859
Acquisition notes: Acquired in Rome from Baneggio.
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1859,0618.3
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: OA.862 (marked on object)

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