Paris
- Title
- Paris
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- The Portland Vase Disc
- Creator
- unknown
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- unknown Ancient Roman (artist)
- Description
- A disc in translucent blue and opaque white cameo glass. The disc has been cut down from a larger composition. The decoration, in white, shows the upper part of a young man in profile, gazing to the right; the forefinger of his right hand is raised towards the chin expressing doubt or consternation. --The British Museum Tatton-Brown, Veronica A; Gudenrath, W; Roberts, Paul C; Whitehouse, D, Roman Cameo Glass, Vol. II, London, BMP, 2007; Tait, Hugh (editor), Five Thousand Years of Glass, London, BMP, 1991
- View
- Front
- Coverage
- Rome, Lazio, Italy (creation) Rome, Lazio, Italy (discovery)
- Temporal
- ca. 1-25 CE
- Subject
- Helen and Paris Trojan Myth, Priorto, Iliad
- Style Period
- Imperial (Roman)
- Work Type
- plaquettes (platte objecten)
- Date
- 0001/0025
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_00156
- Item Locator
- Box 1, Section 8
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- University of Oregon, Department of Classics
- Local Collection Name
- Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- Diameter: 12.2 cm
- Material
- glass | cast; carved
- Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Primary Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Cultural Context
- Roman (ancient Italian culture or period)
- Id Current Repository
- 1945,0927.2
