Publication details
Portraiture on Early Christian gold-glasses: some observations
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | Early christian gold-glasses resulting from broken vessels were mostly founded in the roman catacombs, where they served as marker for some loculi. Analyzing the portraiture on gold-glasses, this article seeks to understand the iconographical sources of this type of objects as well as the reasons of their second use in funerary contexts. |