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
DescriptionBroad, shallow ribbed bowl. Colorless with yellowish tinge. Slightly outsplayed rim with uneven, rounded edge; shallow convex curving side; almost flat bottom, slightly convex on its upperside. On the interior, three narrow horizontal grooves: one below the rim, the other two in a band around the middle of the body. On the exterior, thirty-nine shallow, close-set ribs ar-ranged vertically on the body; the ribs end at the junction of the side and bottom.
TECHNIQUE Sagged; rotary-polished on the interior and on the top of the rim; fire-polished on the exterior; cut on the interior; tooling marks on the exterior of the rim.
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 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
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
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