Inscribed Cup | Yale University Art Gallery

1st century A.D.

Medium: Mold-blown glass, purple, almost white in parts
Dimensions: 2 5/8 × 2 11/16 in. (6.6 × 6.9 cm)
Credit Line: Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Bequest of Mrs. William H. Moore
Accession Number: 1955.6.68
Culture: Roman, Eastern Mediterranean
Period: Roman
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Said to have been excavated near Tyre, Syria; Khayat, 1928; Moore Collection no. 837.
Described in 3-8-1928 Khayat receipt.

Bibliography

Christie's London, London, Ancient Glass from the Shlomo Moussaieff Collection, sale cat. (July 6, 2016), 22, no. 227, ill

Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 53–54, no. 134, ill

Susan H. Auth, Ancient Glass at the Newark Museum: From the Eugene Schaefer Collection of Antiquities (Newark, N.J.: Newark Museum, 1976), 63, no. 57

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Additional information

Inscriptions

In Greek: AABE THN NEIKHN (take the victory)

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