Bowl (Drawing)
Bowl (Drawing)
Place of OriginSyria, Palestine or Italy
DateLate first century BCE to early first 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
DescriptionBroad, shallow bowl. Colorless, with a greenish-yellow tinge, probably incompletely decolorized. Thin, upright rim with rounded edge, sloping obliquely to the outside; convex curving side; slightly concave bottom. On the interior, four narrow horizontal grooves: one just below the edge of the rim, two in a band at the junction of the side and bottom, and a small circular groove at the center of the bottom.
Colorless, with a greenish-yellow tinge, probably incompletely decolorized.
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 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
Early first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Late first century BCE to mid-first century CE
4th century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Probably first century BCE, possibly later
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