Bowl
Bowl
Place of OriginProbably Syria or Palestine
Datemid-2nd to early 1st century BCE
DimensionsH: 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm); Diam: 4 3/16 in. (10.6 cm); Thickness: 1/8 in. (0.3 cm)
MediumSagged; 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
1923.503
Not on View
DescriptionThis small bowl was made from clear glass streaked with purple. It was shaped with heat and polished by hand. Carved grooves decorate both the inside and the outside surfaces.
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. 222, p. 207.
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
mid-2nd to early 1st century BCE
Late 1st century BCE to early 1st century CE
Late 1st century BCE to early 1st century CE
Late 1st century BCE to mid-1st century CE
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
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