Mosaic Plate

late 1st century BCE-early 1st century CE (Late Hellenistic-early Roman)

16 cm 1.9 cm

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Makers of mosaic glass cut thin slices from long, thin rods known as canes. The slices were placed side by side on a marble slab and heated in a furnace until they fused together. The soft flat disk of fused glass was then placed over a bowl-shaped form and heated until it slu...

Artifact

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13501
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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be from near Jerusalem]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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Culture
Roman
Medium
glass
Genre
plates

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