A lovely emerald green Roman glass bowl, E1stC AD: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/245285?rpp=60&pg=1&ao=on&ft=glass+bowl&pos=4 …pic.twitter.com/i8xJ6LsXeJ
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A lovely emerald green Roman glass bowl, E1stC AD: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/245285?rpp=60&pg=1&ao=on&ft=glass+bowl&pos=4 …pic.twitter.com/i8xJ6LsXeJ
One of my favourites :) A Roman 'ribbon glass cup', prob made Italy c. 25 BC–50 AD: https://blog.cmog.org/2011/06/27/antiquity-or-contemporary/ …pic.twitter.com/YFytWV2hUU
A rather lovely Roman glass 'bird bottle' in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.pic.twitter.com/opTdafdmlA
A late 1st–2ndC AD Roman glass jug, said to have been found in France: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/245170 …pic.twitter.com/Tb6cfnvXdp
A 1stC AD Roman perfume bottle from Cyprus, made of honey yellow glass: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/239779 …pic.twitter.com/Re2HHSqSio
A 3rd–4thC AD Roman glass bipartite kohl tube w/ a thin bronze applicator: http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/221820/unknown-maker-bipartite-kohl-tube-roman-3rd-4th-century-ad/ …pic.twitter.com/9VIH6ztqK3
A 1stC AD Roman glass flask from the Eastern Mediterranean: http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/221661/unknown-maker-flask-roman-1st-century/ …pic.twitter.com/LAUG4XaaHs
What a lovely thing. Wonder if it had a practical use - could be the model for an C18th salt. Beautiful colour!
Isn't it just! :) Have seen variety of uses suggested, including some I didn't expect...!
Garum boat? @minimus_latin bath? Something *ritual*? Do tell!
Here you go...! https://www.cmog.org/article/roman-glass-boats … :)
! Women's urinals. Though I suppose that's a bit C18th too :-)
Indeed! :)
And from a Late Roman grave at St. Aldegund in Germany we have ... ;-) #veryverybluepic.twitter.com/ahMSxKsZ7J
Some beauty knows no age. Two thousand years from now this will still be beautiful, and people (if any are left!) will gape in awe at it.
Where are the owl and the pussy cat?
Beautiful and so elegant, top notch crafting skills
A Saturnalia candy dish!
So lovely :).
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