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Bulbous Bowl
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Bulbous Bowl

Place of OriginAncient Rome
Date1st century CE
DimensionsH: 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm); Rim Diam: 3 1/8 in. (8.0 cm); Max Diam: 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled, wheel cut.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.824
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DescriptionVery thin glass. A few small spherical bubbles. Transparent decolored glass. Free-blown; cut. Rim lightly ground. Upper half of body near cylindrical with sides tapering to concave base. Between rim and greatest diameter, two shallow wheel-cut grooves and two wheel-cut incisions. From top to bottom: a groove, an incision, a groove, and an incision. CLASSIFICATION: Isings 1957, Form 12; Vessberg 1952, Beaker type A III, pl. III 21 (variation).

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