Condition
Fragment, broken all around.
Description
The fragment was cut into an angular tile, possibly a lozenge, probably in antiquity. The dark olive-green body is decorated with opaque green rods, which appear lengthwise due to the distortion of the matrix 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Unpublished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