Ribbed Bowl
Ribbed Bowl
Place of OriginSyria, Palestine or Italy
DateLate first century BCE to mid-first century CE
DimensionsH: 2 in. (5.1 cm); Diam: 5 1/4 in. (13.4 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 the interior.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.511
Not on View
DescriptionBroad, shallow ribbed bowl. Natural pale green, possibly incompletely decolorized. Slightly outsplayed rim with almost pointed edge; convex curving side; slightly concave bottom. On the interior, five narrow horizontal grooves: one at the edge of the rim, a second at the junction of rim and side, a third around the middle of the body, and two in a band just above the junction of the side and bottom. On the exterior, twenty rounded ribs set almost vertically on the body; the ribs end at the junction of the side and bottom.
Natural pale green, possibly incompletely decolorized.
DESCRIPTION Broad, shallow ribbed bowl. Slightly outsplayed rim with almost pointed edge; convex curving side; slightly concave bottom. On the interior, five narrow horizontal grooves: one at the edge of the rim, a second at the junction of rim and side, a third around the middle of the body, and two in a band just above the junction of the side and bottom. On the exterior, twenty rounded ribs set almost vertically on the body; the ribs end at the junction of the side and bottom.
TECHNIQUE Sagged; rotary-polished on the interior, the top, and the outside of the rim; fire-polished on the rest of the exterior; cut on the interior.
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. 230, pp. 263-264.
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
Late first century BCE to mid-first century CE
Late first century BCE to mid-first century CE
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 early first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
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