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Ptolemaic Period–Roman Period
Monochrome blue glass has been fused with three patterns of mosaic glass: twisted blue and yellow form a staff, another pattern forms a broad collar, and a feather pattern represents a god's garment..
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Title: High relief inlay fragment, frontal bust of a god in a feather garment and holding a scepter
Period: Ptolemaic Period–Roman Period
Date: 200 BC–100 AD
Geography: From Egypt; Said to be from Rome
Medium: Glass
Dimensions: H. 3.5 × W. 5 cm (1 3/8 × 1 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Object Number: 17.194.2467
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