Engraved glass bowl (Wint Hill Bowl) with a huntsman and two hounds driving a hare into a net, inscribed 'Drink, live with your (folk)'
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Title
Engraved glass bowl (Wint Hill Bowl) with a huntsman and two hounds driving a hare into a net, inscribed 'Drink, live with your (folk)'
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Associated place
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Date
AD 325 - 350
Late Roman Period (Britain) (AD 201 - 410) -
Material and technique
glass
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
4.3 cm (minimum) (height)
19 cm (minimum) (diameter)
0.15 cm (minimum) (depth)
0.3 cm (maximum) (depth)
19.3 cm (maximum) (diameter)
6.6 cm (maximum) (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased with funds from the France Bequest and the assistance of The Art Fund.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 13 | Rome -
Museum department
Antiquities
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Accession no.
AN1957.186
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Further reading
Piper, David, and Christopher White, Treasures of the Ashmolean Museum: An Illustrated Souvenir of the Collections, revised edn (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1995), no. 28 on p. 33, illus. p. 33 fig. 28
Newby, Martine S., Glass of Four Millennia, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 14 on p. 22, p. 4, illus. pp. 22 & 23 fig. 14
