Object Number | MS5205.11 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Gnostic |
Provenience | Syro-Palestine |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Glass |
Description | a) Teal blue glass disk with turtle stamped in middle. At top of disk is a loop made from edge of disk, above head of turtle. b) Brown glass disk with standing lion in profile under a crescent and a bird (?) stamped in middle. At top of disk is a loop made from edge of disk. c) Yellowish brown glass disk with a roaring lion stamped in middle. At top of disk is a loop made from edge of disk. d) Greenish yellow glass disk with a human figure flanked by two crosses stamped in middle. At top of disk is a loop made from edge of disk. e) Brown glass disk with same stamp as b) in middle. At top of disk is a loop made from edge of disk. f) Greenish blue glass with perched bird (?) stamped in middle. At top of disk is a loop made from edge of disk. g) Yellowish brown glass disk with 2 human faces in profile facing each other (kissing?) stamped in middle. At top of disk is a loop made from edge of disk. h) Dark yellow glass disk with two human faces in profile facing each other (similar to g) but smaller) stamped in middle. At top of disk is a loop made from edge of disk. i) Glass disk of unknown color coated in a bronze colored patina and heavily iridescent. Standing lion under a crescent with a star in its middle stamped in middle of disk. At top of disk is a loop made from edge of disk. j) Yellowish green glass with same stamp as h) in middle. At top of disk is a loop made from edge of disk. k) Brown glass disk with a roaring lion stamped in middle, very similar to c) but opposite direction and more detail of mane. At top of disk is a loop made from edge of disk. |
Thickness | 0.4 cm |
Outside Diameter | 1.9 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from Fr. Vester and Company, American Colony Store, Jerusalem, 1913 |
Other Number | GL01a (ancient glass project) - Other Number |
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