Glass mosaic inlay fragment

Unknown

late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Opaque brick red. Flat, rectangular panel, with two straight edges. Marbled mosaic pattern in a red ground with many deeper red swirls. Chipped along two adjoining edges, corner, and part of underside; polished upper side; pitting of surface bubbles on upper side; thick, creamy weathering on underside and all but one edge. Fragment of a flat panel in opaque streaky red glass.

Artist

Unknown

Date

late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891