Engraved Glass Bowl
Artist: Roman
Location: Ashmolean Museum
Date: 300 - 400
Materials: glass
Dimensions: 19 x 5 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £400 (Total: £1,400)
Vendor: A F Harding
Review number: 1875 (1957)
Provenance:
Found in a 4th Century building excavated at Chapel Leazes, Wint Hill, Somerset during November 1956.
Description:
A Roman provincial bowl, broken into 20 fragments, it is now complete. Belongs to a small but well-defined group of decorated and inscribed drinking bowls. Made of pale olive-green glass, spirally streaked, engraved on the outer surface with a mounted horseman, with flying cloak and whip, galloping through a tree-studded landscape, with two hounds driving a hare into a net. Round the scene is inscribed VIVAS CVM TVIS PIE Z= 'May you live, you and yours. Drink. Live'
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