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CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
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FOUR ROMAN CAMEO GLASS FRAGMENTS
circa 1st century a.d.
Including three of opaque white on dark blue, one a panel or plate fragment preserving the legs of a seated figure; a cup fragment preserving the front portion of a Nilotic boat and the feet of two deckhands, the boat ornamented with two rosettes on a field of vertical bands alternating with horizontal bands, of the deckhands only the front portion of one foot from one figure surviving to the left, and the rear foot and and draped leg and the diagonally poised pole of the other to the right; a cup fragment preserving the body of a kilted figure carrying a small bearded herm; and a three layered cup fragment of blue over opaque white on blue, the device cut in sunk relief through the upper layer of the blue, preserving a hand holding the neck of a goose (?) above a second arm bent at the elbow, a hand holding a staff to the left, a relief band in blue above with a solar-disk and a uraeus
3.1/8 in. (7.9 cm) wide for the largest (4)
circa 1st century a.d.
Including three of opaque white on dark blue, one a panel or plate fragment preserving the legs of a seated figure; a cup fragment preserving the front portion of a Nilotic boat and the feet of two deckhands, the boat ornamented with two rosettes on a field of vertical bands alternating with horizontal bands, of the deckhands only the front portion of one foot from one figure surviving to the left, and the rear foot and and draped leg and the diagonally poised pole of the other to the right; a cup fragment preserving the body of a kilted figure carrying a small bearded herm; and a three layered cup fragment of blue over opaque white on blue, the device cut in sunk relief through the upper layer of the blue, preserving a hand holding the neck of a goose (?) above a second arm bent at the elbow, a hand holding a staff to the left, a relief band in blue above with a solar-disk and a uraeus
3.1/8 in. (7.9 cm) wide for the largest (4)
Literature
Sangiorgi, Collezione di Vetri Antichi, no. 171 (for the first), no. 157 (for the second) and no. 156 (for the fourth).