Glass cameo cup fragment late 1st century B.C.-mid-1st century A.D. Roman Translucent cobalt blue with overlay in opaque white.Outsplayed rim with upturned, rounded outer lip; cylindrical body with concave curving side.On interior, horizontal raised line around inner edge of rim; on exterior, in relief in white part of a scene with two figures and goats in rural setting: at left, a vase on a square pedestal beside a naked figure, perhaps Dionysus, with drapery covering proper right leg and proper left arm at side holding a jug, standing on a raised platform; in front, a horned nanny goat, facing right, with back legs on platform but front legs on lower rocky foreground, and a kid, facing left, suckling from below with front legs resting on platform; in front of nanny goat, a low bush with long leafy sprays, from which she may be grazing; behind goats, a slender, wavy tree with leafy branches; at right, a naked satyr with cloak draped over his proper left shoulder, stands in three-quart
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