Fragment with Greek Inscription

Object Name: 
Fragment with Greek Inscription

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Object Name: 
Fragment with Greek Inscription
Place Made: 
Roman Empire
Eastern Mediterranean
Accession Number: 
59.1.138
Dimensions: 
Overall Diam: 6.7 cm, Th: 0.3 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
175-299
Primary Description: 
Transparent greenish-colorless glass with minute bubbles; blown, wheel-cut, engraved. Fragment from side of deep, perhaps hemispherical, bowl; decorated on exterior with head and shoulders of beardless male, shown in profile facing left; farther towards left and above, oval motif attached by two straight parallel lines to part of another motif, also with two parallel lines; to left of head, two lines of inscription in Greek capitals, retrograde (i.e. meant to be read from interior of bowl): iota, pi, pi, omicron [ /tau, omicron, sigma, lppo[ ]tos, perhaps Hippolytos.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Smith, Ray Winfield (American, 1897-1982), Source
1959-07-27
Category: 
Roman
Color: 
green
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
cutting
engraving
Material: 
glass
Inscription: 
IΠΠO... TOC
inscription
: 
scratched left of the head Greek

Exhibitions (1)

Glass from the Ancient World
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1957-06-04 through 1957-09-15

Publications (4)

Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, Volume One (1997) pp. 239-240, #404A; p. 370, #404A; BIB# 58895
Beyond the Pharaohs: Egypt and the Copts in the 2nd to 7th Centuries A. D. (1989) illustrated, p. 119, no. 27; BIB# 24703
Glass from the Ancient World: The Ray Winfield Smith Collection (1957) illustrated, pp. 178-179, #361; BIB# 27315
Figurlich Geschliffene Glaser : Eine Kolner Werkstatt des 3 Jahrhunderts (1951) p. 12, #18, fig. 5; BIB# 29320