Carinated Beaker on Base Ring

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Carinated Beaker on Base Ring

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date1st-2nd century CE

DimensionsH: 4 1/16 in. (10.4 cm); Rim Diam: 2 3/4 in. (7.1 cm); Body Diam: 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm); Base Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.844

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DescriptionThe beaker is made of medium thin glass. Its fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. The glass is transparent dusky yellow-green (5 GY 5/2). It was free-blown and wheel-cut. There is no pontil mark. The rim is ground and has a slight bulge above a constriction. The straight sides widen toward a carination at the center of the body and then taper downward to the base. The flat base includes a solid interior knob. The body is decorated with three bands of horizontal wheel-cut incisions. This shape corresponds to Isings 1957, Form 34.

Published ReferencesHayes, John W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975, p. 57, no. 136. (A close parallel dated "Probably late 1st century-early 2nd century A.D.").