Lintel with Cobras

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Object Name: 
Lintel with Cobras
Place Made: 
Egypt
Roman Empire
Accession Number: 
59.1.94 E
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 1.1 cm, W: 8.9 cm, D: 0.6 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
299 BCE-99 CE
Primary Description: 
Lintel with Cobras. Mosaic glass or millefiori elements. Mosaic glass strip (formerly identified as a sawtooth pattern with ivy leaf along one edge). Actually this is the lintel of a miniature shrine with twenty-three cobras forming the horizontal element, their heads are roughly cut in a sawtooth pattern from a monochrome turquoise band which runs above a series of raised bodies delineated with a scale pattern in yellow on a field of blue and turquoise in a long rectangular red matrix.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Smith, Ray Winfield (American, 1897-1982), Source
1959-07-27
Category: 
Origins of Glassmaking
Roman
Color: 
turquoise
yellow
blue
red
Technique: 
millefiori glass
mosaic glass
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

Designs in Miniature: The Story of Mosaic Glass
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1995-06-03 through 1995-10-22

Publications (2)

Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1979) illustrated, p. 231, #673; BIB# 29547
Glass from the Ancient World: The Ray Winfield Smith Collection (1957) illustrated, pp. 69-71, #99; BIB# 27315

Objects in Set (20)

Mosaic Glass Shrine
Date:299 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:59.1.94
Plaque with Hathor
Date:299 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:59.1.94 A
 
8 Cane Slices Showing Full Face of Goddess Hathor from Mosaic Glass Shrine
Date:299 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:59.1.94 B
3 Cane Slices Showing Half Heads of an Owl from Mosaic Glass Shrine
Date:299 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:59.1.94 C
 
4 Mosaic Rosette Elements from Mosaic Glass Shrine
Date:299 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:59.1.94 D
6 Mosaic Wing Inlays from Mosaic Glass Shrine
Date:299 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:59.1.94 F
 
2 Rosette Elements from Mosaic Glass Shrine
Date:299 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:59.1.94 G
2 Mosaic Glass Apis Bull Plaques and 1 Border from Similar Plaque from Mosaic Glass Shrine
Date:299 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:59.1.94 H
 
Lotus Bud Plaque from Mosaic Glass Shrine
Date:299 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:59.1.94 I
2 Mosaic Glass Inlays from Mosaic Glass Shrine
Date:299 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:59.1.94 J
 
2 Mosaic Glass Inlays from Mosaic Glass Shrine
Date:299 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:59.1.94 K
Mosaic Glass Strip from Mosaic Glass Shrine
Date:299 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:59.1.94 L
 
56 Mosaic Glass Strips and Squares from Mosaic Glass Shrine
Date:299 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:59.1.94 M
8 Mosaic Glass Strips from Mosaic Glass Shrine
Date:299 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:59.1.94 N
 
2 Mosaic Glass Strips from Mosaic Glass Shrine
Date:299 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:59.1.94 O
Hieroglyph of a Double Feather from Mosaic Glass Shrine
Date:299 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:59.1.94 P
 
2 Elements from Mosaic Glass Shrine
Date:299 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:59.1.94 Q
2 Notched Strips and 1 Bag of Strip Fragments from Mosaic Glass Shrine
Date:299 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:59.1.94 R
 
9 Bags of Mosaic Strips and Fragments from Mosaic Glass Shrine
Date:299 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:59.1.94 S
2 Bags of Chips and Shreds from Mosaic Glass Shrine
Date:299 BCE-99 CE
Accession Number:59.1.94 T