Spherical Bowl

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Spherical Bowl

Place of OriginRoman Empire

Date1st century CE

DimensionsH: 2 3/16 in. (5.6 cm); Rim Diam: 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm); Body Diam: 2 5/8 in. (6.6 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.649

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DescriptionTransparent natural pale green glass (10 G 6/2). The bowl is free-blown and tooled from medium thick glass containing pinprick bubbles and a few small horizontally elongated bubbles near the rim. The rim is rounded and slightly thickened in flame. The body is bulbous with a round base. There is an interior cut-out ridge around the middle of the body. A small near-circular gouge, approximately 1.0 cm in diameter, is present on the underside of the base.