Beaker with Mythological Figures | Yale University Art Gallery

1st century A.D.

On view, 1st floor, Dura-Europos

Medium: Mold-blown glass, yellow
Dimensions: 19 × 9.4 cm (7 1/2 × 3 11/16 in.)
Diameter of foot: 6 cm (2 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Bequest of Mrs. William H. Moore
Accession Number: 1955.6.49
Culture: Eastern Mediterranean, Roman
Period: Roman
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Said to have come from Hama, Syria; Fahim Kouchakji, 1928
Referred to in 1-11-1928 Kouchakji receipt.

Bibliography

David Frederick Grose, The Hellenistic, Roman, and Medieval Glass from Cosa, ed. R. T. Scott (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 2017), 111–12.

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), 298, no. 114, pl. 114.

Karol B. Wight, "Mythological Beakers: A Re-Examination," Journal of Glass Studies 36 (1994): 36, 38, 41–42.

Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 268, ill.

Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 56–59, no. 137, ill.

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Additional information

Object/Work type

beakers (drinking vessels)

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