medallion; bowl

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Object Type: medallion; bowl
Museum number: 1863,0727.14
Description: Diminutive medallion; glass originally from a bowl; with protecting layer of blue glass; gilded design; within an octagonal linear border a nude beardless figure of Adam, full-face, his body inclined to the left and his arms extended in the attitude of an orans; in the field four leaves and a circular dot.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 3rdC-5thC
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Cologne (city), grave (?) (?); Found/Acquired: Rome (city), catacomb (?) (?)
Materials: glass; gold
Technique
Dimensions: Length: 0.92 inches
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 (618); Vopel 1899 / Die altchristlichen Goldgläser (201); Garrucci 1858 / Vetri Ornati di Figure in Oro trovati nei Cimiteri dei Christiani Primitivi di Roma (tav.III, fig.12, p.12); Morey 1959 / The Gold-Glass Collection of the Vatican Library (no.319, p.55, pl.XXX); Howells 2015 / A Catalogue of the Late Antique Gold Glass in the British Museum (p.14-15, p.20, p.26, p.30, p.31, table.1, p.34, table.4, p.37, table.6, p.38, p.89-113, p.106, pl.84, p.165) (Cat.21)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: leaf; old testament
Associated names
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1863
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1863,0727.14

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