Glass mosaic fragment
Translucent purple; trails in opaque white, yellow, and grey-blue.
Part of a thick slab, with one rounded edge and uneven top and bottom surfaces.
Wavy trails applied to top, fire-polished surface, extending onto rounded edge.
Surface pitting of pinprick bubbles and small areas of encrustation and dulling on top surface; dulling, pitting, and some reddish soil encrustation on bottom surface and jagged edges.
Part of a thick slab, with one rounded edge and uneven top and bottom surfaces.
Wavy trails applied to top, fire-polished surface, extending onto rounded edge.
Surface pitting of pinprick bubbles and small areas of encrustation and dulling on top surface; dulling, pitting, and some reddish soil encrustation on bottom surface and jagged edges.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass mosaic fragment
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; cast
- Dimensions: 2 13/16 × 1 1/4 × 5/16 in. (7.1 × 3.2 × 0.7 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.396.70
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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2nd century CE
late 1st century BCE
3rd century CE
late 1st–2nd century CE
ca. 50–80 CE
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