Plate CXXXVII · Glass
Vol. XII (1954) · full-page plate
(fot. Museo civico - Torino)
(fot. Musei Vaticani)
(fot. Gab. fot. naz.)
1) CAST OF THE GLASS CUP, found at Ostia in the so-called house of the Priest, with engravings and intaglios depicting Christ holding with his left hand the monogrammed cross, and with his right an open book; at the sides a palm and a basket of loaves (late 4th - early 4th cent.) - Ostia, Museum. 2) GOLDEN GLASS with Lawrence and Cyprian, for Cyprian, (4th cent.) - Biblioteca Vaticana, Museo Cristiano, no. 294. 3) GOLDEN GLASS with the portraits of two spouses crowned by Christ in the centre, and around: Peter, Paul, Lawrence, Sixtus, Cyprian, Epolinus (4th cent.) - Florence, Museo archeologico. 4) GOLDEN GLASS WITH GOOD SHEPHERD (4th cent.) - Rome, cemetery of Panfilo. 5) TRIPTYCH WITH GLASSES ADORNED WITH FIGURES IN GOLD, depicting the Cresciglione and, at the sides, the Madonna and Child and St. Michael the Archangel, work by Jacopino Cietario (1460) - Turin, Museo civico di arte antica.