A Glass Opus Sectile Panel from Corinth

by Andrew Oliver

Hesperia, Volume 70, Issue 3
Page(s): 349-363
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3182066
Year: 2001
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ABSTRACT:

This paper describes a glass opus sectile panel excavated at Corinth in 1981. The building in which it was found is situated east of the theater and is one of a suite of structures thought to have been destroyed shortly before A.D. 300. The author explores the subject matter of the panel (four fish swimming within a border of interlaced, crossed squares) with respect to a broad range of Roman decorative arts, and suggests that the panel may originally have been intended as wall decoration.