Founded in 1933 as the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, the institution was renamed in honor of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr, son of the homonymous auto magnate, following the donation by him in 1971 of some 7,000 works of art from his private collection to the city of Norfolk. The collection currently comprises some 35,000 objects, primarily works of American and European art, but it includes also some ancient Egyptian artefacts, a representative selection of Roman glass (a specialty of the museum), and an early Byzantine floor mosaic with a dedicatory text in Greek.
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VA.Norf.CMA.G.71.2262D (transcription)
Mosaic with dedicatory inscription by a certain Beryllos