- Museum number
- 1863,0727.3
- Description
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Bottom of a drinking vessel; glass; with low foot-rim; gilded design: within a circle are the half-figures of a husband and wife; the woman wears a diadem, collar with pendilia and a toga-like garment; the man wears a tunic and toga; between their heads is a small figure of Hercules wearing a lion's skin and holding the three apples of the Hesperides and his club; a circular inscription surrounds them and continues in smaller letters around their heads; the apples, parts of the jewelled collar and the clavus on the man's right shoulder are painted.
- Production date
- 4thC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 105.30 millimetres
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Weight: 79.42 grammes
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Depth: 5.98 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Published: O. Iozzi, Vetri cimiteriali con figure in oro conservati nel Museo Britannico, Rome, 1900, pp 28-30; H. Tait (ed.), Masterpieces of Glass, London, 1968, no 90; Exh. cat., Glass of the Caesars, Milan, 1987, no 155; A. Demandt and J. Engemann (eds), Konstantin der Grosse (Mainz, 2007), CD Rom no I.11.51.
- Bibliographic references
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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 (608)
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Buckton 1994 / Byzantium: Treasures of Byzantine art and culture from British collections (9b)
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Vopel 1899 / Die altchristlichen Goldgläser (no.113, p.230, pl.i)
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Garrucci 1858 / Vetri Ornati di Figure in Oro trovati nei Cimiteri dei Christiani Primitivi di Roma (tav.XXXV, fig.1, p.69-70)
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Morey 1959 / The Gold-Glass Collection of the Vatican Library (no.316, p.54, pl.XXIX)
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Howells 2015 / A Catalogue of the Late Antique Gold Glass in the British Museum (p.12, p.14-15, p.20, p.25, p.30, p.31, table.1, p.34, table.4, p.37, table.6, p.39, p.57, p.60, p.61, p.64, p.69, p.70, p.114-131, p.120, p.121-123, p.122, pl.101, p.124, p.125, p.126, p.136, p.166) (Cat.35)
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Tait 1991 / Five Thousand Years of Glass (123)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2012-2013 11 Nov-25 Aug, USA, Art Institute of Chicago, Tradition Transformed: Late Roman and Early Byzantine Treasures from the British Museum
2011 23 June-9 Oct, London, BM, Treasures of Heaven
2007 2 Jun-4 Nov, Germany, Trier, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Constantine the Great
2006 18 Mar-4 Jun, Beijing, Capital Museum, Treasures of the World's Cultures
2005 27 Oct-2006 31 Jan, Haengso Museum, Keimyung University, Daegu, Treasures of the World's Cultures
2005 25 Jul-8 Oct, Busan Museum, Treasures of the World's Cultures
2005 11 Apr-10 Jul, Seoul Arts Centre, Treasures of the World's Cultures
2004 26 Jun-29 Aug, Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Treasures of the World's Cultures
2004 10 Apr-13 Jun, Fukuoka Art Museum, Treasures of the World's Cultures
2004 17 Jan-28 Mar, Kobe City Museum, Treasures of the World's Cultures
2003 18 Oct-14 Dec, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Treasures of the World's Cultures
1988 30 Sep-1989 6 Jan, Italy, Rome, Museo Capitolino, Glass of the Caesars
1988 15 Apr-26 Jul, Germany, Cologne, Römisch-Germanisches Museum, Glass of the Caesars
1987 18 Nov-1988 15 Mar, London, British Museum, Glass of the Caesars
1987 25 Apr-19 Oct, USA, Corning, Corning Museum of Glass, Glass of the Caesars
- Associated events
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Associated Event: Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides (?)
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Associated Event: Labours of Hercules (?)
- Acquisition date
- 1863
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1863,0727.3
