Currently not on view
Fragment of a beaker with a mythological scene
y1944-70
Information
Object Number
y1944-70
Medium
Transparent light yellow glass
Dates
late 1st century A.D.
Dimensions
pres. h. 11.1 cm, original diam. rim ca. 7.0 cm (4 3/8 x 2 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Saul S. Weinberg
Place Collected
Turkey, Istanbul
Materials
mold-blown glass
Description
Rim ground and slightly out-splayed; conical body. Decorated with nude figure of Hermes holding a caduceus in right hand, uncertain object (purse or tortoise shell) in left hand, standing between columns and beneath a pediment.
On the Istanbul market; purchased by Mrs. Saul S. Weinberg; given to the Museum by Mrs. Saul S. Weinberg
Fragment of a beaker with a relief of Hermes
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24187997
Gladys Davidson Weinberg, "Mold-blown beakers with mythological scenes", <em>Journal of glass studies</em> 14 (1972): p. 26-47., p. 27, fig. 1; p. 32, no. 8
6796 1972
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/794814337
Anastassios Antonaras,<em> Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum </em>(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2012), cat. no. 108 (illus.)
1296 2012
