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Fragment of dish
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Fragment of dish

Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean or Italy, most likely Rome
DateSecond to mid-first century BCE
DimensionsMax L: 2 3/4 in. (7.0 cm); Max W: 7/8 in. (2.2 cm)
MediumAssembled from sections, lengths, and segments of cane and cast; rotary-polished on both surfaces.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1980.938
Not on View
DescriptionFragment of side and bottom of broad, shallow dish. Convex curving side; slightly convex bottom. Composite mosaic pattern formed from polygonal sections, square segments, and rectangular lengths of five canes: the first in a purple ground with an opaque white spiral; the second in a blue-green ground with an opaque yellow spiral (appearing green); the third in a blue ground with an opaque white spiral; the fourth, all short rectangular lengths, in a purple ground with two parallel opaque white lines; and the fifth, represented by a single square segment, in an opaque yellow ground backed by purple, visible only on the interior.
Published ReferencesGrose, David F., Early Ancient Glass: Core-formed, Rod-Formed, and Cast Vessels and Objects from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Roman Empire, 1600 B.c. to A.d. 50, New York, Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, 1989, cat. no. 195, pp. 200-201, repr. (col.) p. 181.

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