Cup with Dionysiac Revel Artist: Unknown

1st century A.D.

Ancient Art

On view, 1st floor, Dura-Europos
Medium

Transparent olive green glass; mold-blown

Dimensions

6 1/2 × 3 3/4 in. (16.5 × 9.6 cm)

Credit Line

Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Bequest of Mrs. William H. Moore

Accession Number

1955.6.50

Culture

Roman, Eastern Mediterranean

Period

Roman

Classification

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Provenance
Said to have been found in the necropolis of Beroia at Aleppo, Syria; ex. coll. Ada Small Moore.
7-25-1935 Kouchakji receipt.
Bibliography
  • John Varriano, Wine: A Cultural History, exh. cat. (London: Reaktion Books, 2010), 60, no. 27, ill
  • Axel von Saldern, Antikes Glas (Munich: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2004), 280, pl. 40, fig. 242
  • Richard A. Grossmann, Ancient Glass: A Guide to the Yale Collection (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2002), 28, fig. 28
  • Christine Kondoleon, Antioch: The Lost Ancient City (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), 205, fig. 91
  • Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 54-56, no. 136, ill
  • Jane Hayward, "Roman Mold-Blown Glass at Yale University," Journal of Glass 4 (1962), 53–55, fig. 1, 9–10
  • 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. 232, pls. 48–49
  • Robert Zahn, Galerie Bachstitz 's-Gravenhage (Berlin: Frisch, 1921), 578, no. 160, fig. pls 64-65
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States

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