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Cup

Cup
The cup was made using millefiori (“thousand flowers”) technique by dint of relief processed mould. Basic blue composition is mottled with threads and irregular pieces of white glass. The bottom of the cup, that is circularly shaped, is decorated with vertical protruding details while the girdle alongside the opening, one centimetre wide, is smooth. The diameter of rim is rounded.

Catalogue entry

Cup
Museum Mimara, Zagreb
Glass Collection
inv. no. ATM 1767
Egypt, Alexandria
Roman Period (30 B.C.-395 A.D.)
1st c. A.D.
glass; millefiori
5.7 cm
diameter of the rim: 9.5 cm

Resources

  • Ratković Bukovčan, Lada. „The Ancient Egyptian glass collection in the Mimara Museum“. U: Tomorad, Mladen (ur.). A History of Research into Ancient Egyptian Culture conducted in Southeast Europe. Oxford, 2015: 75-84. 83-84, fig. 95.
  • Ratković Bukovčan, Lada. Buđenje staklarstva. Zagreb, 2001. no. 16, 26.
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  • Tomorad, Mladen. „The Egyptian antiquities in Croatia“. PalArch 2, 1 (2005): 1-33. 13.
  • Tomorad, Mladen. Egipat u Hrvatskoj: egipatske starine u hrvatskoj znanosti i kulturi. Zagreb, 2003. 68, fig. 68, 69, fn. 430.
  • Tomorad, Mladen. Model računalne obrade i prezentacije staroegipatskih predmeta u muzejskim zbirkama u Hrvatskoj. [Doktorska disertacije, Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu Sveučilišta u Zagrebu]. Zagreb, 2006. 18.
  • Tomorad, Mladen. Staroegipatska civilizacija, sv. II: Uvod u egiptološke studije. Zagreb, 2017. 68.

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