medallion; bowl

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Object Type: medallion; bowl
Museum number: OA.4310
Description: Diminutive medallion; glass originally from a bowl; with blue protecting glass; gilded decoration; Jonah lying upon his back beneath the gourd with his right arm beneath his head.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 3rdC-5thC
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Cologne (city), grave (?) (?); Found/Acquired: Rome (city), catacomb (?) (?)
Materials: glass; gold
Technique
Dimensions: Diameter: 0.86 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 (623); Vopel 1899 / Die altchristlichen Goldgläser (231); Howells 2015 / A Catalogue of the Late Antique Gold Glass in the British Museum (p.17, p.20, p.26, p.30, p.31, table.1, p.34, table.4, p.37, table.6, p.38, p.89-113, p.109, pl.89, p.165) (Cat.25)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: bible; fruit
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: OA.4310

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