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Fragment of an inlay,
1st century BCE–1st century CE

Hellenistic to Roman Imperial

y1931-10 d

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Title

Fragment of an inlay

Dates

1st century BCE–1st century CE

Medium

Opaque yellow and red glass; translucent dark blue glass

Dimensions

1.5 x 2 cm, th. 0.34–0.37 cm (5/8 x 13/16 x 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Museum purchase or gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.

Object Number

y1931-10 d

Place Made

Italy ?

Place Collected

Europe, Italy, Rome

Description

Mosaic border stripe with registers of schematized bouquets, set in an opaque yellow ground. The upper and lower parts of two contiguous, originally identical, floral elements are preserved. Each consisted of three translucent dark blue lanceolate leaves and two opaque red stems topped by circular, opaque red flowers or buds. Between the two preserved elements, six horizontal lines, alternately opaque red and dark blue, form a slightly deformed square, rendering the band that fastened the leaves and the flowers together.

Period

Hellenistic

Type

fragments, ornament, glass, inlays

Materials

glass

Subject

floral patterns, palmettes

<p> Probably purchased by Frank Jewett Mather Jr. in Rome; either purchased by or given to the Museum by at least 1931 </p>

Anastassios Antonaras,<em> Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum </em>(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2012), cat. no. 239 (illus.)

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Hellenistic to Roman Imperial, Egypt ?, 1st century BCE–1st century CE, Fragment of an inlay. Opaque yellow and red glass; translucent dark blue glass; 1.5 x 2 x 0.4 cm. Museum purchase or gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr. (y1931-10 d) https://artmuseum-beta.princeton.edu/art/collections/objects/59580

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