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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Cameo Glass Panels with the Initiation of Ariadne
Image View:
Panel; initiation of Ariadne with Silenus and a maenad (Inv 153651)
Creator:
unknown (Roman (ancient) glass worker)
Location:
repository: Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples, Campania, Italy) 153651; 153652
Location Note:
Piazza Museo, 19
GPS:
40.853378 14.250486
Date:
ca. 15-54 CE (creation)
Cultural Context:
Roman (ancient)
Style Period:
Imperial (Roman)
Work Type 1:
cameo (sculpture)
Classification:
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Material:
blue and white cameo glass
Technique:
blown glass; carving (processes)
Measurements:
25 cm (height) x 39.9 cm (width)
Subjects:
mythology (Classical); Dionysus (Greek deity); Pompeii (Extinct city)
Description:
The cameo (cased glass) glass panels, worked with the techniques of blowing, intaglio and grinding, date to the Tiberio-Claudian period (15-54 CE). The panels, found in the autumn of 1960 among waste materials outside the House of M. Fabius Rufus in the Insula Occidentalis in Pompeii, were probably an element of decoration of a wall, or most likely, of a wooden piece of furniture instead of the most common ivory marquetries. The panels feature the initiation of Ariadne, and the apparition of Dionysus to Ariadne while asleep. (Source: Naples National Archaeological Museum [website]; https://www.museoarc heologiconapoli.it/e n/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A3-R-NAM-SWD-B01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Cameo Glass Panels with the Initiation of Ariadne