Glass cameo fragment. Culture: Roman. Dimensions: 13/16 × 2 1/8 × 1/8 in. (2 × 5.4 × 0.3 cm). Date: 1st half of 1st century A.D..Translucent cobalt blue and opaque light blue.Flat plaque or inlay, decorated with an upper layer carved out in relief; smooth, flat back.On cobalt blue ground, a fish in profile facing left, with fins, scales, gills, eye, mouth carved as shallow cuts in surface of the upper opaque light blue layer; above fish, bottom edge of a second relief, perhaps another fish.Bottom straight edge, irregular breaks on sides and top; broken into two fragments and repaired; very few bubbles; dulling, limy weathering, and faint iridescence. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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