Uma colecção particular de vidros romanos

Abstract

A A. apresenta uma pequena colecção de seis vasos romanos de vidro. Trata-se de peças quase todas de fabrico do Médio Oriente, entre as quais o n.° 3 é de interesse especial. A mesma colecção pertencem mais cinco artefactos diferentes: duas ligulae de bronze, provavelmente também da época romana, um machado dos finais da Idade do Bronze e, finalmente, dois aryballoi corintios.

The author presents a small collection of antiquities, including six Roman glass vessels which were studied in detail. They are mostly of Eastern Mediterranean manufacture; n.° 3 is an item of special interest. A further two bronze ligulae, presumably also from the Roman period, a bronze axe typical for the late bronze age of Northern Portugal, and two late Corinthian aryballoi are merely mentioned and catalogued without further comments. The artefacts were part of the well known collection of the Duke of Palmeia, most of which was received as gifts from foreign dignitaries in the beginning of this century. They now belong to Dr. João Gonçalo de Amaral Cabral and will be donated to the archaeological museum of the Fundação da Casa de Bragança in Vila Viçosa (Portugal).