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bowl(?)

Object Type
Museum number: OA.856
Description: Fragment, from the bottom of a bowl(?); glass; gilded decoration; bust of St Peter full-face, bearded and wearing tunic and pallium; in the field to left of the head an inscription.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 3rdC-5thC
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Cologne (city), grave (?) (?); Found/Acquired: Rome (city), catacomb (?) (?)
Materials: glass; gold
Technique
Dimensions: Length: 1.46 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 (633); Vopel 1899 / Die altchristlichen Goldgläser (316); Howells 2015 / A Catalogue of the Late Antique Gold Glass in the British Museum (p.17, p.30, p.31, table.1, p.34, table.4, p.37, table.6, p.39, p.63, p.70, p.71-88, p.71-74, p.72-73, p.72, pl.36, p.73, fig.15, p.87, p.88, p.163) (Cat.2)
Location: Not on display
Condition: Three layers of glass.
Subjects: saint/martyr; new testament
Associated names
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: OA.856