Bowl
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Bowl
Place of OriginSyria, Palestine or Italy
DateLate first century BCE to early first century CE
DimensionsH: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm); Diam: 6 3/16 in. (15.7 cm); Thickness: 1/8 in. (0.3 cm)
MediumSagged; rotary-polished on the interior, the top, and the outside of the rim; fire-polished on the rest of the exterior.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.500
Not on View
DescriptionBroad, shallow bowl. Golden-brown. Upright rim with rounded edge; fairly straight side, tapering diagonally downward; slightly concave bottom. On the interior, three narrow horizontal grooves: one below the rim, the other two in a band around the middle of the body.
Golden-brown.
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. 244, p. 267, repr. (col.) p. 213, 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 early 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
Mid-second to early first century BCE
Late first century BCE to mid-first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Mid-second to early 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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