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Ancient Art
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Explore image in Patella Cup
1st century B.C.–1st century A.D.
Cast glass, opaque white
4.2 × 8.1 cm (1 5/8 × 3 3/16 in.)
Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Bequest of Mrs. William H. Moore
1955.6.24
Status:
On view
Culture:
Roman, Eastern Mediterranean
Period:
Hellenistic or Roman
Classification:
Containers - Glass
Bibliography:
Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 17, no. 45, 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), 296, no. 111, pl. 111.
Gustavus A. Eisen, Glass: Its Origin, History, Chronology, Technic and Classification to the Sixteenth Century, 2 vols. (New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1927), vol. 1, p. 209, pl. 36a–b.
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