"Vivas congratulate"
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"Live with bliss"
, recommended the Latin inscription in relief which adorned the rim of the remarkable glass bowl of Autun. The word is in the image of the archaeologists who discovered the object last year: happy and lively. With an appearance both simple and curious, the object certainly competes little with the most beautiful works of Murano or the aestheticized whims of René Lalique. The small vase, 12.6 centimeters high, nevertheless comes a long way. From the 4th century, to be precise. Extracted in 2020 from the muddy gangue of a stone sarcophagus, during the excavation of the late Antiquity necropolis located in the district of Saint-Pierre-l'Estrier, in Autun, this fragile bowl was in shabby. Once dirty and fragmented, it has since regained its appearance.
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