Barrel-Shaped Beaker

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Barrel-Shaped Beaker

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date1st century CE

Dimensions2 3/8 × 2 7/16 × 2 5/16 in. (6 × 6.2 × 5.9 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown, tooled, and wheel cut

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.646

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DescriptionMedium thin, possibly transparent decolored glass with small spherical bubbles. This vessel is classified as Isings 1957, Form 12; Vessberg 1952, Beaker type A III (variation). It is free-blown, tooled, and wheel-cut. The rim is ground. The sides are convex and the base is concave. The body is decorated with three shallow wheel-cut grooves: one at the rim and two near the middle.

Published ReferencesLightfoot, Christopher S., "A Roman Glass Flask in Gazlante's Museum," Anatolian Studies, Journal of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, XXXV, 1985, p. 124 (reprint in doc file 1923.429).