Bowl
Bowl
Place of OriginProbably Syria or Palestine
DateMid-second to early first century BCE
Dimensions3 1/2 × 6 1/8 × 1/8 in. (8.9 × 15.5 × 0.4 cm)
MediumGlass; sagged; rotary-polished on the interior, the top, and the outside of the rim; fire-polished on the rest of the exterior; cut on both surfaces.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.900
Not on View
DescriptionConical bowl. Colorless with greenish-yellow tinge. Upright rim with rounded edge, sloping obliquely outward; straight side, tapering diagonally downward; convex bottom. On the interior, three narrow horizontal grooves cut in a band below the rim. On the exterior, two lightly abraded horizontal grooves cut in a band around the lower body.
Colorless with greenish-yellow tinge.
Published ReferencesGrose, David F., "Ancient Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News 20 no. 3, 1978, pp. 74-75, fig. 9.
Grose, David F., "The Origins and Early History of Glass," in The History of Glass, eds. Dan Klein and Ward Lloyd, 1984, p. 21, ill.
Grose, David F., "Innovation and change in ancient technologies: The anomalous case of the Roman glass industry," in High-technology Ceramics, Westerville, OH, 1986, p. 68, pl. I (col.).
Grose, David F., Early Ancient Glass: Core-Formed, Rod-Formed, and Cast Vessels and Objects from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Roman Empire, 1600 B.C. to A.D. 50, Hudson Hills Press in Association with the Toledo Museum of Art, New York, 1989, Catalog No. 212, p. 204, repr. (col.) p. 182 drawing, p. 411.
Mid-second to early first century BCE
Mid-second to early first century BCE
Mid-second to early first century BCE
Mid-second to early first century BCE
Mid-second to early first century BCE
Late first century BCE to mid-first century CE
Late first century BCE to mid-first century CE
Late first century BCE to mid-first century CE
Late first century BCE to mid-first century CE
Mid-second to early first century BCE
Mid-second to early first century BCE
Late first century BCE to mid-first century CE
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