Garas Klára szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 62-63. (Budapest, 1984)

SZILÁGYI, J. GY.: VIVAS IN DEO

26. Early Christian glass ewer. Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts 27. The inscription on the vessel in fig. 26 (drawing) cutting away the gold from the background. The inscription, which begins cca. 2 cm from the handle reads ACCIPE VIVAS IN DEO. The letters have almost entirely disappeared, and can only be read with a magnifying glass in a favourable light (fig. 27). The decorative rings of blobs are unparalleled. Gold letters (and occasionally figurai representations) in the same technique are known on vessels of other shapes, e. g. a „footed flute" from Nubia, dated to the second half of the