Bowl
Bowl
Place of OriginProbably Syria or Palestine
Datemid-2nd to early 1st century BCE
DimensionsH: 3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm); Diam: 5 3/8 in. (14.6 cm); Thickness: 3/16 in. (0.4 cm)
MediumSagged; rotary-polished on the interior and the top of the rim; exterior fire-polished; cut on the interior.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.901
Not on View
DescriptionThis yellow-tinged colorless bowl has a conical form with a sharply edged rim and sloping sides. Three grooves are cut into the inner surface below the rim. The bowl’s surface has been polished by different techniques.
Published ReferencesGrose, 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, New York, Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, 1989, cat. no. 213, p. 205.
mid-2nd to early 1st century BCE
mid-2nd to early 1st century BCE
1st century BCE
mid-2nd to early 1st century BCE
mid-2nd to early 1st century BCE
Late 1st century BCE to mid-1st century CE
Late 1st century BCE to mid-1st century CE
Late 1st century BCE to mid-1st century CE
mid-2nd to early 1st century BCE
mid-2nd to early 1st century BCE
mid-2nd to early 1st century BCE
mid-2nd to early 1st century BCE
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