Bell-Shaped Beaker on Base Ring
Bell-Shaped Beaker on Base Ring
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Date1st-2nd century CE
DimensionsH: 4 in. (10.1 cm); Rim Diam: 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown (?), wheel cut
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.847
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. Pinprick bubbles and one large bubble at carination.
Natural light green; inverted bell shape; rim ground flat; on outside, lightly cut horizontal lines: two below rim, three one-third down beaker; two two-thirds down; tooled at bottom to form pad-like base.
Transparent clear natural grayish green (5 G 5/2).
Free-blown. No pontil mark. Cut.
Rim unworked, but knocked off very evenly. Concave walls with carination ca. 2.3 cm above base. Concave domed base with narrow pushed-in base.
On body, three horizontal bands of wheel-cut incisions: one band at rim, one band on upper body, and one band below middle of body.
CLASSIFICATION Isings 1957, form 36 b
Published ReferencesHayes, John W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975, fig. 137, p. 57.
1st century CE
1st-2nd century CE
Sixth to early seventh century
2nd-3rd century CE
Second half of first century CE
Second half of the first century CE
1st-2nd century CE
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