Conical Beaker

Artist Unidentified

Period Roman Empire (Ancient Roman, 27 BCE-395 CE)

Place of Originpossibly from Hauran or Golan Heights

Date3rd-4th century CE

Dimensions2 9/16 × 4 5/8 × 1 13/16 in. (6.5 × 11.8 × 4.7 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1908.56

Not on View

DescriptionMedium thin glass. Bubbly; numerous pinprick and small spherical bubbles. Blowing spirals. Transparent natural pale green (10 G 6/2). Similarly colored thread. Free-blown and tooled. Pontil mark ca. 0.9 cm. Added thread. Everted rim rounded and thickened in flame. Straight-walled body with sides broadening toward base. Base flattened with depression in center. Thread ca. 0.9 cm below rim.