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 glass. Small spherical bubbles. Transparent decolored(?) glass. Free-blown; cut. Rim ground. Convex sides. Concave base. Three shallow wheel-cut grooves: one at rim and two near middle of body. CLASSIFICATION Isings 1957, Form 12; Vessberg 1952, Beaker type A III (variation).

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).