Editorial Assistant Rachel High discusses the Museum’s first publication devoted to Ennion with Ennion: Master of Roman Glass curator and author, Christopher Lightfoot.
Lightfoot with contributions from Zrinka Buljević, Yael Israeli, Karol B.
1911–13, excavated under the direction of Baron Max von Oppenheim; ceded to Baron Max von Oppenheim in the division of finds; acquired by the Museum in 1943, purchased from the Alien Property Custodian, New York
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These backgrounds link the individual scenes in a unified composition.
Inscription: „To the spirits of the dead. To the most saintly Cominia Tyche, his most chaste and loving wife, [from] Lucius Annius Festus. [She] died at the age of twenty-seven years, eleven months, twenty-eight days
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Inscription: (On scroll): . Ave . / . gracia . / . ple / na . (Hail [Mary] full of grace)Marking: Arms [on shield held by two angels, center top]: Vilanova of Castile, Catalonia, etc
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African king Jugurtha, in chains, walking before him, an event that took place in 104 B.C
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The Concourse of the BirdsThe manuscript from which this painting comes was produced in 1483 at the Timurid court of Sultan Husayn Baycara at Herat. It contains four illustrations that may or may not be by the hand of Bihzad, the most famous artist of that era, but represent his innovative, perfectionist style
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and were decorated with post-fired paints (see Valdez 1992:136; MMA 1991.436.7a, b)
BottleThis large bottle has a domed profile, a slightly flared cylindrical neck, and a low tooled foot. The decoration is divided into a series of bands. The band on the upper body includes three large medallions, each containing an eight-petaled green-and-red central star from which a complex scrolling pattern radiates outward to create a floral pattern; the outlines are in red, the background is blue and gold, and there are eight alternating pointed elements in red and white
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