Bag-Shaped Beaker on Base Ring
Bag-Shaped Beaker on Base Ring
Artist
Unidentified
Period
Roman Empire
(Ancient Roman, 27 BCE-395 CE)
Place of Originpossibly from Hauran, Roman Syria
Date1st-2nd century CE
Dimensions3 7/16 × 3 3/8 × 3 1/8 × 2 1/2 in. (8.8 × 8.5 × 7.9 × 6.4 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Object number
1908.66
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. Concentrations of bubbles varying from pinprick to long diagonal in alignment with blowing spirals.
Free-blown and tooled. Pontil mark ca. 1.1 cm.
Flaring rim rounded and thickened in flame. Concave sides widening toward carination just above base. Concave base with narrow curved pushed-in hollow tubular base ring.
Transparent dusky yellow green (5 GY 5/2).
2nd-4th century CE
Second half of fourth to early fifth century
2nd-3rd century
3rd-4th century CE
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