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The Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) (r) is a structured vocabulary for generic concepts related to art and architecture. It was developed by The Getty Research Institute to help research institutions become consistent in the terminology they use.Learn More
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Almost colorless glass, but with pale yellowish green tint; blown (two gathers), facet-cut, polished, and engraved. Beaker: conical. Rim outsplayed, cracked off and ground; wall tapers; floor flat; shallow conical foot, hollow, with ground edge; no pontil mark. Decorated with continuous figural frieze, with borders above and below. Upper border: between pair incised lines on rim and one raised countersunk line on upper wall, two rows of about sixty narrow oval facets; those in upper row slope down from right to left, while those in lower row slope down from left to right, together making chevron-like motifs. Frieze: two figures, with vegetation and other motifs, all of which have outlines and some details indicated by broad, polished cuts and facets, and most details indicated by shallow linear cuts; (A) male, naked or partially naked, running from viewer's left to right, his torso shown frontally and his head in profile, turned back to look behind him; near his left foot, ball-like object; he is identified by inscription in Greek capitals on either side of head: iota, pi, pi, omicron, mu, epsilon round form| nu / eta, sigma round form|, Hippomenes; in front of him, (B) stump of tree, with spray of three leafy branches sprouting from it; in front of tree and behind figure (A), (C) female, running from left to right, evidently in pursuit of (A), naked except for short, skirt-like garment, her torso shown frontally and her head evidently in profile, facing forward; she holds sword in right hand and reaches forward with left hand, as though trying to apprehend figure (A); beneath her left arm, garland or some other circular object, apparently with ribbons; she is identified by inscription in Greek capitals on either side of head: alpha, tau, alpha lambda / alpha, nu| tau, eta, Atalan|te; between (A), (B), and (C), small comma-like motifs, sometimes in pairs, and scribbled suggestions of vegetation. Lower border consists of horizontal groove, which in effect is ground-line of frieze, and, below this, band of thirty-one rather uneven narrow vertical facets.
Publications (11)
Ancient and Islamic Glass: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass (2019)
illustrated, pp. 68-69;
The Cut-Glass Beaker from Biel-Mett/BE (2015)
illustrated, pp. 182-183 (fig. 4);
BIB# 712762
Felerprobe und Liebesapfel--der Mythos von atalante und Hippomenes in der Kunst und seine interdisziplinare Rezeption (2011)
illustrated, pp. 43-44, Fig. 169;
BIB# 127524
Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, Volume One (1997)
pp. 237-239, #402A-B; p. 369, #402A-B;
BIB# 58895
Atalante (1984)
pp. 940-950, no. 78;
Atalanta (1983)
p. 12;
La corsa di Atalante e Hippomenes figurata in alcuni oggetti antichi (1919)
illustrated, pp. 82-85 (fig. 1-2);
BIB# 713966