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Conical Beaker on Base Ring
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Conical Beaker on Base Ring

Place of OriginAncient Rome
Date1st century CE
DimensionsH: 4 3/8 in. (10.6 cm); Diam: 2 13/16 in. (7.2 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown; wheel cut, and polished.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.838
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thick heavy glass. Good quality. A few small spherical bubbles. Transparent dusky yellow (near 5 Y 6/4). Free-blown. No pontil mark. Cut. Ground rim with slight bulge above constriction. Slightly convex sides tapering down to base. Flat base with solid raised interior knob. Three bands of pairs of shallow horizontal wheel-cut incisions; the top and bottom bands are plain and the middle band is subdivided by a broad shallow wheel-cut groove. CLASSIFICATION: Isings 1957, form 34.
Comparative ReferencesErroneously cited by Hayes 1975, 56 as a parallel to his no. 134 instead of 1923.0836.

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