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bowl(?)

Object Type
Museum number: 1859,0618.4
Description: Fragment of bowl(?); glass; gilded decoration; a roll and letters.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 3rdC-5thC
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Rome (city), catacomb
Materials: glass; gold
Technique
Dimensions: Length: 1.80 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 (645); Vopel 1899 / Die altchristlichen Goldgläser (464); Howells 2015 / A Catalogue of the Late Antique Gold Glass in the British Museum (p.14, p.20, p.25, p.30, p.31, table.1, p.32, table.3, p.33, p.34, table.4, p.35, table.5, p.37, table.6, p.132-145, p.138-139, p.139, pl.119, p.167) (Cat.45)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1859
Acquisition notes: Acquired in Rome from Baneggio.
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1859,0618.4
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: OA.866 (marked on object)