Bowl
Bowl
Place of OriginProbably Syria or Palestine
DateMid-second to early first century BCE
DimensionsH: 2 11/16 in. (6.9 cm); Diam: 4 11/16 in. (11.9 cm); Thickness: 1/8 in. (0.3 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
1923.899
Not on View
DescriptionSmall conical bowl. Natural yellowish-green. Upright rim with rounded, uneven edge, sloping obliquely outward; straight side, tapering diagonally downward; convex bottom. On the interior, two horizontal grooves cut in a band below the rim.
Natural yellowish-green.
Published ReferencesGrose, David F., "Ancient Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News 20, no. 3, 1978, pp. 74-75, fig. 9.
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, cat. no. 214, p. 205, repr. (col.) p. 182, drawing, p. 411.
Late first century BCE to mid-first century CE
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
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
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
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