Medallion with the Portrait of St. Kosmas
Medallion with the Portrait of St. Kosmas
Place of OriginRoman Empire
DateLate 6th - early 7th century CE
DimensionsDiam: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)
MediumGlass; cast(?), ground glass with paint (tempera?)
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1885
Not on View
DescriptionTransparent, decolorized glass with a light greenish gray tinge (5 GY 8/1). Three colors in painted decoration: black (near N), brown (near 5 YR 4/2), and reddish brown (between 10 R 5/4 and 10 R 4/6).
Hinterglasmalerei. Rim chipped.
Flat disk.
Cold-painted bust of a man en face with a circular nimbus painted in opaque white outline. He is painted in dull black outline with brown hair and tunic and reddish brown drapery. An inscription is painted in black letters to the right and left of his head. To the left: DISCUSS WITH PRINTER; to the right: DISCUSS WITH PRINTER.
Exhibition HistoryThe Dayton Art Institute, The Roman World: Religions and Everyday Life (featuring the Brooklyn Museum exhbition: Tree of Paradise: Jewish Mosaics from the Roman Empire), September 21, 2007- January 6, 2008 (no cat.).
Toledo Museum of Art, The Egypt Experience: Secrets of the Tomb, October 29, 2010-January 8, 2012.
4th century
18th Dynasty (1550-1292 BCE), about 1350 BCE
6th to early 7th century
Probably mid- to second half of 1st century
Mid- to late 4th century CE
about 1525-1550
4th century
6th to early 7th century
Probably mid-5th to mid-6th century
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