Bowl (phiale)
Date: Late fourth century BCE
Dimensions:
H: 4.1 cm (1 5/8 in.); Rim Diam: 17.3 cm (6 5/8 in.); Thickness: 0.3 cm (1/8 in.); Weight: 210.6 g (7.43 oz.)
Medium: Cast in a multipart mold, possibly by a cire perdue technique; rotary-polished on both surfaces; cut on the exterior.
Place of Origin: Western Asia, probably Persia or Ionia
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1979.74
DescriptionBroad, shallow phiale. Colorless with slight yellowish tinge. Outsplayed rim with rounded edge; short outsplayed side; distinct carination separates the side from a shallow convex bottom. On the underside at the center of the bottom, a raised circular cut disk, polished flat; radiating out from the disk, a cut pattern of thirty-two elongated petals with rounded ends, each extending upward to a pronounced horizontal groove immediately below the junction of the side and bottom. Running the length of each petal, a shallow, cut median groove.
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