Ribbed Bowl
Ribbed Bowl
Place of OriginSyro-Palestinian or Italy
DateLate first century BCE to mid-first century CE
DimensionsH: 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm); Diam: 4 15/16 in. (12.5 cm)
MediumGlass; 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.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.454
Not on View
DescriptionBroad, shallow ribbed bowl. Natural bluish-green. Slightly outsplayed rim with rounded edge, sloping obliquely outward; fairly straight side, tapering diagonally downward; slightly concave bottom. On the interior, two narrow horizontal grooves in a band at the junction of the side and bottom, with a small, faint, circular groove (or group of abraded lines) at the center of the bottom. On the exterior, eighty-five short, close-set ribs arranged almost vertically around the middle of the body.
Natural bluish-green.
DESCRIPTION Broad, shallow ribbed bowl. Slightly outsplayed rim with rounded edge, sloping obliquely outward; fairly straight side, tapering diagonally downward; slightly concave bottom. On the interior, two narrow horizontal grooves in a band at the junction of the side and bottom, with a small, faint, circular groove (or group of abraded lines) at the center of the bottom. On the exterior, eighty-five short, close-set ribs arranged almost vertically around the middle of the body.
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, Hudson Hills Press in Association with the Toledo Museum of Art, New York, 1989, cat. no. 236, p. 265, repr. (col.) p. 212, drawing, p. 412.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
Mid-second to early first century BCE
Late first century BCE to mid-first century CE
Mid-second to early first century BCE
Mid-second to early first century BCE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
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