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Cylindrical Bowl

Place of OriginAncient Rome
Date1st century CE
DimensionsH: 2 in. (5.1 cm); Rim Diam: 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm); Body Diam: 2 29/32 in. (7.4 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown, tooled, and wheel cut.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.652
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. A few pinprick bubbles. Transparent decolored glass with light greenish grey tinge at rim (5 GY 6/1). Free-blown; cut. Rim ground. Cylindrical body. Flattened base with slight depression in center. Four shallow wheel-cut grooves and three wheel-cut incisions. From rim to base: groove, two incisions, three grooves, one incision. CLASSIFICATION: Isings 1957, Form 12 (variation).

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