Ribbed Bowl
Ribbed Bowl
Place of OriginAncient Rome, Syria, Palestine or Italy
DateLate first century BCE to mid-first century CE
DimensionsH: 2 3/8 in. (6 cm); Diam: 4 7/16 in. (11.35 cm)
MediumGlass; cast, wheel cut on interior; fire polished on interior and exterior.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.509
Not on View
DescriptionMedium blue; hemispherical shape;
Thick, slightly outsplayed rim with rounded edge; convex curving side; almost flat bottom, slightly convex on its upperside. On the interior, three narrow horizontal grooves: one below the edge of the rim, the other two in a band around the middle of the body. On the exterior, thirty short, pronounced ribs set almost vertically around the middle of the body; the ribs end at or just above the junction of the side and bottom.
Blue.
Published ReferencesGrose, David F., "Innovation and change in ancient technologies: The anomalous case of the Roman glass industry," in High-technology Ceramics, Westerville, OH, 1986, p. 71, fig. 6.
Grose, 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. 241, p. 266, 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
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
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
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