Condition
Fragment, broken all around.
Description
White and turquoise stripes of various widths curving on a dark, translucent purple background. The back of the inlay was scored, while still hot, with parallel and crosshatched grooves that form a loose network of lozenges, probably for better adhesion of the tile to the object in which it was set.
Comments and Comparanda
For the historical and technological evolution of glass inlays in Pharaonic Egypt and the Roman Empire, see comments on cats. 449 and 460.
Provenance
By 1976, Bruce McNall, donated to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1976
Bibliography
Unpublished
Exhibitions
None