Glass Bowl Fragment in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2010

Glass Bowl Fragment
Greek, Ptolemaic Egyptian, cast 1st century BC

Accession # 1995.86

This fragment is highly unusual not only in its subject matter but also in having the the maker's signature, which is now only partially preserved in Greek letters to the left of the central pair of lovemakers. Other couples apparently once decorated the rim of this small bowl.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.