Glass cameo fragment late 1st century B.C.-mid-1st century A.D. Roman Translucent deep honey brown with opaque turquoise green overlay.Flat underside; top surface with shallow relief decoration.In relief in green, naked youthful satyr, facing right with head in profile, torso and legs in three-quarter view, and proper right arm raised behind him; torso rendered with musculature in fine detail; on his head, above his pointed proper right ear, is what appears to be a leaf or wing, picked out by differential weathering.Broken on all sides with weathered edges; dulling, slight pitting, patches of weathering and brilliant iridescence on back.The fragment comes from a flat panel of glass, probably a plaque rather than a vessel. The honey brown ground and opaque turquoise overlay are an unusual combination for Roman cameo glass.. Glass cameo fragment 249596
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