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Object Name: 
Fragment
Place Made: 
Roman Empire
Accession Number: 
66.1.147
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 3 cm, W: 2.6 cm, D: 7.2 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
200-399
Primary Description: 
Colorless with greenish tinge glass; blown, applied, gold sandwich glass technique using gilded rods of colorless glass. Fragment of cup or bowl, lower part of wall curves inward at bottom; flat floor; upper part of hollow foot made from separate gather; wall decorated with seven pairs of vertical trails nipped at bottom and in one or more other places; floor decorated with Latin inscription "BIBE" in rectangular cartouche surrounded by oval frame consisting of numerous S-shaped elements which on casual inspection appear to be two continuous twisted rods.

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Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Sangiorgi, Giorgio (Italian, 1886-1965), Former Collection
Sangiorgi, Sergio (Italian), Source
1966
Category: 
Roman
Color: 
Colorless, greenish tinge
colorless
Technique: 
blown, applied, gold sandwich glass technique

Publications (4)

Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, Volume Two (2001) pp. 243-244, pl. 831; BIB# 58895
Glass, Gold, and Gold-Glasses (1996) illustrated, p. 9, fig. 8; BIB# AI1414
Blown gold-sandwich glasses with gilt glass-trail inscriptions (1996) illustrated, p. 121, no. 6; BIB# AI48483
Une Coupe a Fond d'or Decouverte a Farrobo, Portugal (1968) illustrated, pp. 71-79; p. 78, figs. 11-12, #12;