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Excavations by the Metropolitan Museum at a necropolis in Egypt's Libyan Desert revealed a domed funerary chapel with an intriguing form of decoration: glass vessels of various shapes and colors impressed into the plaster of the dome. These fragments come from a plate composed of yellow-green and dark-green glass fused to form a pattern.
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Title: Glass Fragments
Date: 4th century
Geography: Made in Kharga Oasis, Byzantine Egypt
Culture: Coptic
Medium: Glass (blue)
Dimensions: Storage (petri dish dim.): 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. (8.9 x 8.9 cm)
Classification: Glass-Vessels
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1931
Accession Number: 31.8.42.49a-h
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