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Ancient Art
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Explore image in Carinated Bowl
1st century A.D.
Mosaic glass
4.5 × 10 cm (1 3/4 × 3 15/16 in.)
The Anna Rosalie Mansfield Collection
1930.422
Culture:
Roman, Eastern Mediterranean or Egyptian(?)
Period:
Roman
Classification:
Containers - Glass
Provenance:
Said to have been found near Aleppo, Syria. Khayat, 1927. Mansfield Collection no. 246.
Bibliography:
Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 17–18, no. 48, ill.
Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Roman in the Provinces: Art on the Periphery of Empire (Chestnut Hill, Mass.: McMullen Museum of Art, 2014), 295, no. 108, pl. 108.
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