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486. Fragment of a Mosaic Inlay with Geometrical Motif

Accession Number 76.AF.70.27
Dimensions L. 2.4, W. 2.4, Th. 0.2 cm; Wt. 3.36 g
Date First century BCE–first century CE
Production Area Egypt or Italy
Material Translucent green and opaque yellow glass
Modeling Technique and Decoration Fusion
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Condition

Fragment, broken all around.

Description

The fragment was cut into a square tile, probably in antiquity. Three sides are carefully ; the edge of the fourth side is broken. The green body is decorated with yellow rods, which appear, faintly, lengthwise due to the distortion of the mass when it was formed by slumping.

Comments and Comparanda

For the historical and technological evolution of glass inlays in Pharaonic Egypt and the Roman Empire, see comments on cat. 449.

Provenance

By 1976, Bruce McNall, donated to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1976

Bibliography

Unpublished

Exhibitions

None