Bowl (Drawing)
Bowl (Drawing)
Place of OriginSyria, Palestine, or Italy
DateLate 1st century BCE to early 1st century CE
DimensionsH: 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm); Diam: 7 3/16 in. (18.3 cm); Thickness: 1/8 in. (0.3 cm)
MediumGlass; mold fused, abraded, and wheet cut
ClassificationGlass
Object number
1923.502
Not on View
Descriptionhis wide, colorless glass bowl, slightly tinged with yellow, was shaped and carved around the turn of the first century. Grooves inside the vessel were carefully cut to enhance its design.
Published ReferencesHayes, John W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975, no. 44 (a close parallel dated to "early-mid 1st century A. D.").
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. 243, p. 267, drawing p. 413.
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
2nd-1st century BCE
Early 1st century CE
Late 1st century BCE to early 1st century CE
Late 1st century BCE to early 1st century CE
Late 1st century BCE to early 1st century CE
Late 1st century BCE to early 1st century CE
Late 1st century BCE to early 1st century CE
Late 1st century BCE to early 1st century CE
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