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Group of thirty-three glass tesserae
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Group of thirty-three glass tesserae in opaque blue and green as well as transluscent brown and yellow-green. Glass tesserae were most often used on wall mosaics (as opposed to floor mosaics).
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Miss E. Bayliss gift; to the Department of the Classics Harvard University 1913 transfer; to the Fogg Art Museum 1977.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Department of the Classics Harvard University Gift of Miss E. Bayliss Received 11-17-1913
Title: Group of thirty-three glass tesserae
Description:
Group of thirty-three glass tesserae in opaque blue and green as well as transluscent brown and yellow-green.
Glass tesserae were most often used on wall mosaics (as opposed to floor mosaics).
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