Inverted Conical Beaker
Inverted Conical Beaker
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Date2nd-3rd century CE
DimensionsH: 3 5/16 in. (8.5 cm); Rim Diam: 4 in. (10.25 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown, wheel cut
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.823
Not on View
DescriptionThin glass. A few pinprick and small bubbles. Blowing spirals.
Colorless, with slight greenish tinge; conical shape with flat bottom; flared rim; on exterior, decorated with lightly inscribed horizontal grooves: three near top; one near bottom.
Transparent decolored glass with a light olive tinge (5 Y 6/1).
Free-blown. No pontil mark. Cut.
Everted rim with convex sides and irregular unworked edge bent out from ca. 0.5 cm below rim. Straight sides tapering down to base. Flattened base with slight depression in center.
On body, two bands of horizontal wheel-cut incisions.
1st-2nd century CE
1st-2nd century CE
1st century CE
1st century CE
Probably mid-1st century, about 40-70
1st-2nd century CE
1st century CE
4th-5th century CE (?)
Second half of first century CE
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