Inverted Conical Beaker
Inverted Conical Beaker
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Date1st-2nd century CE
DimensionsH: 3 1/16 in. (7.8 cm); Rim Diam: 3 7/16 in. (8.7 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown, tooled, and wheel cut.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1169
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. A few small bubbles.
Transparent decolored glass with a yellowish gray tinge (5 Y 7/2).
Free-blown. No pontil mark.
Everted rim with convex sides and irregular unworked edge, bent out from constriction below. Wide inverted conical body with slight bulge just below center and concave sides below. Concave base.
On upper half of body, four bands of horizontal wheel-cut incisions, possibly the remains of shallow wheel-cut grooves.
CLASSIFICATION: Isings 1957, Form 106 (?).
1st-2nd century CE
2nd-3rd century CE
4th-5th century
1st century CE
1st-2nd century CE
Probably mid-1st century, about 40-70
4th-5th century CE (?)
1st century CE
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