Cameo glass fragment 1st half of 1st century Roman Translucent cobalt blue with opaque white underside; top surface with shallow relief relief in white, head and upper torso of a naked youthful satyr, facing left with head in profile and back in three-quarter view, and proper right left dropped before him and head slightly raised; he appears to be lifting a large circular object, part of which survives in front of him to the on all sides; dulling, slight pitting, patches of creamy weathering and fragment comes from a flat panel of gla


Cameo glass fragment 1st half of 1st century Roman Translucent cobalt blue with opaque white underside; top surface with shallow relief relief in white, head and upper torso of a naked youthful satyr, facing left with head in profile and back in three-quarter view, and proper right left dropped before him and head slightly raised; he appears to be lifting a large circular object, part of which survives in front of him to the on all sides; dulling, slight pitting, patches of creamy weathering and fragment comes from a flat panel of glass, probably a plaque rather than a Cameo glass fragment 252531 Roman, Cameo glass fragment, 1st half of 1st century , Glass, Overall: 1 1/2 x 2 1/16 in. ( x cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Fletcher Fund, 1926 ()


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