Rock Crystal Dish in the Form of a Temple, 3rd–5th century, Roman or Byzantine, Rock crystal, Overall: 2 3/8 x 1 5/8 in. (6 x 4.1 cm), Lapidary Work-Crystal, This rock crystal carving found in a cistern in Carthage (now in Tunisia, North Africa) demonstrates the quality of the arts of that great city as the Roman world became Byzantine. The Roman naturalist Pliny, describing its beauty, believed crystal to come from snow
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