Ribbed Bowl
Ribbed Bowl
Place of OriginThe Levant or Cyprus
Datelate 1st century BCE-mid 1st century CE
DimensionsGlass Dimensions: 1 5/8 × 4 7/8 × 1/8 in. (4.2 × 12.4 × 0.3 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LinePurchased from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Object number
1916.153
Not on View
DescriptionThis ribbed bowl was formed by sagging a disk of glass over a mold. The glass is colorless with a yellowish tinge. The vessel features a slightly outsplayed rim with an uneven, rounded edge, shallow curving sides, and a nearly flat base with a slight convexity on its upper surface.
The interior is rotary-polished and includes three narrow horizontal grooves: one just below the rim, and two forming a band around the middle of the body. The exterior is fire-polished and decorated with thirty-nine shallow, close-set vertical ribs that terminate at the junction of the side and bottom. The interior was also cut, and the rim shows visible tooling marks.
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. 233, p. 264.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
Late 1st century BCE to mid-1st century CE
Mid-4th through early 3rd century BCE
Late 1st century BCE to mid-1st century CE
1st century BCE
Late 4th century BCE
Late 1st century BCE to mid-1st century CE
6th-5th century BCE
Late 6th through 5th century BCE
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