Magical Transparencies – The Glass of Ancient Albingaunum

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Liguria · Ancient glass

Magical Transparencies – The Glass of Ancient Albingaunum

Albenga, Savona

Housed in Palazzo Oddo, the exhibition brings together a substantial number of ancient glass pieces (1st–3rd century AD) from the excavations of the necropolis of Albingaunum, Roman Albenga. Its showpiece, at the end of the itinerary, is the extraordinary cobalt-blue plate engraved with two putti dancing in honour of Bacchus.

What to see

  • Roman glass from the 1st–3rd century AD
  • From the excavations of the Albingaunum necropolis
  • The celebrated cobalt-blue plate with putti
  • In the sixteenth-century Palazzo Oddo

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