Saturday, October 04, 2025

 

Inscription on a Reticulated Glass Cup

Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum Pannonicarum 122 (from Pécs, Hungary, late 4th-mid. 5th century AD, now at Cologne, Römisch-Germanisches Museum im Belgischen Haus):
Drink, may you live well always.

πίε, ζήσαις καλῶς ἀεί.
The cup:
See P.J. Sijpesteijn, "Christian Mottos on Vessels?" Journal of Glass Studies 30 (1988) 123-125.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 11:30 AM


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