Roman Gold Foiled Glass with Inscription
4th century A.D. Fragment of dark blue glass with applied gold-foil decoration: figural scene above a band of running scrolls; Greek script legend '???????[..]'. Cf. Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol.2, New York, 2001, item 866, for type; La Magna & Annaratone, Vocabolario Greco-Italiano, Milano, 1966, p.794 s.v. ????o???. 2.19 grams, 25 mm (1 in.).

From a European collection, 1970s.

The fragment has a shallow curvature as if it was once part of a large drinking vessel. The Greek text '????? ??' appears to be derived from the verb ???????? 'to be fatal' or 'to be destined by the fate', so '[it was] not fatal'.