Fragment of Panel with Thomas

Fragment of Panel with Thomas

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Object Name: 
Fragment of Panel with Thomas
Department
Ancient
Category
Roman
Place Made: 
Roman Empire
Date: 
350-399
Color
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blue
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red
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gold
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green
Technique
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mosaic
Dimensions: 
Overall L: 79 cm
Accession Number: 
86.1.1
Location: 
Not on Display
Description
Opaque and translucent glass in a variety of colors, set in a resinous or bituminous matrix and backed with pieces of earthenware amphora or tile. Fragments come from the upper part and side of a rectangular panel. This contained a roundel bearing a chi-rho in gold sandwich glass on a translucent turquoise background; to the right of the roundel is a standing figure, of which only the head remains, facing left and identified, in Greek, as Thomas. The background is opaque dark blue. To the right of the figure is the remains of a column with an Ionic capital. We may suppose that the roundel was in the center of the panel, with a standing figure on either side.
Provenance
Galerie Nefer, Source
1986-02-19
Glass of the Caesars
Venue(s)
British Museum 1987-11-18 through 1988-03-06
Corning Museum of Glass
Looking at Glass: A Guide to Terms, Styles and Techniques (2005) illustrated, p. 46; BIB# 99164
Plastik sanatlarda cam malzemenin uygulanisi (2003) illustrated, p. 18, fig. 2.3, row 1, #4; BIB# 120381
Due iscrizioni sepolcrali cristiane dalla collezione del Museo Sacro (2001) illustrated, p. 241, fig. 5; p. 242;
Roman Glass: Reflections on Cultural Change (1999) illustrated, p. 94, Plate E.94; p. 95; BIB# 72068
Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, Volume One (1997) pp. 34-35, #32A-B; p. 326, #32; BIB# 58895
Corning Museum of Glass. Newsletter (Summer'96) (1996) illustrated
Intarsia glass pictures in Coptic Egypt (1990) illustrated, pp. 240-2244, figs. 3-4; BIB# AI27186
The Thomas Panel (1988) illustrated, pp. 34-36, figs. 1-4;
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1986 (1987) p. 5;
Glass of the Caesars (1987) illustrated, p. 34, #11; BIB# 31831
Recent Important Acquisitions, 29 (1987) illustrated, p. 113, #2; BIB# AI19055
Galerie Nefer, ancient art (#3) (1985) #34;
The History of Glass (1984) p. 32; BIB# 22683

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