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Definition of Murrhine glass

Murrhine glass
Murrhine Mur"rhine, a. [L. murrhinus, fr. murrha: cf. F. murrhin.] Made of the stone or material called by the Romans murrha; -- applied to certain costly vases of great beauty and delicacy used by the luxurious in Rome as wine cups; as, murrhine vases, cups, vessels. Murrhine glass, glassware made in imitation of murrhine vases and cups.

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- Tressaud, Alain; Vickers, Michael (2007), "Ancient murrhine ware and its gl**** evocations", Journal of Gl**** Studies, 49: 143–152 The Google Cultural Institute...
- Italian gl****. In its observations of the display, the United States Commission to the Paris exposition commented not only on "Roman murrhine gl****", but...