Condition
Fragment, broken all around.
Description
The fragment seems to have been cut into a square tile, probably in antiquity. The green body is decorated with yellow rods that appear obliquely 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Unpublished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