Currently not on view
Fragment of a melting pot,
late 3rd–early 7th centuries
Late Antiquity, ca. 476–700 CE
2012-89
Information
Title
Fragment of a melting pot
Dates
late 3rd–early 7th centuries
Medium
Red clay; translucent dark green glass
Dimensions
pres. h. 4.1 cm, diam. base 4.5 cm (1 11/16 x 2 1/4 x 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch to Princeton University
Object Number
2012-89
Place Excavated
Turkey, Antioch on the Orontes
Description
Fragment of a glassworker’s broken melting pot. The hemispherical or conical clay bowl stands on a low ring base. In the bowl is preserved a layer of black—dark green—glass, about 1 cm. thick.
Period
Excavated by the Princeton-led team at Antioch-on-the-Orontes, present-day Antakya, Turkey, 1931-1939 in sector 26 K, subroom 4, 1935; with the Museum since 1939
- Anastassios Antonaras, Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2012), cat. no. 504 (illus.)
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2012," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 71/72 (2012-13): p. 105-132., p. 123
