Sauzay, A. (Alexandre), 1804-1870 · London, S. Low, son, and Marston · leaf 40
i6 MARVELS OF GLASS-MAKING, coloured glass,* and bearing an inscription in green glass, was found in 1825, in a coffin, disinterred by chance near the glacis of Strasbourg, by a gardener. It has been placed by my care in the museum belonging to our public library, where it is admired by all who see… … Fig. 9. — THE STRASBOURG VASE. MAXIMIANVS AVGVSTVS can be distinguished. This was without doubt MAXIMIANUS HERCULIUS,t * By coloured glass the writer evidently means coloured in the mass, or enamelled. t A Roman emperor who was born in Pannonia about the year 250, and died at Marseilles in 310.
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