Bowl
Bowl
Place of OriginSyria, Palestine, or Italy
DateLate 1st century BCE to early 1st 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
DescriptionThis shallow, wide bowl was made from golden-brown and shaped using heat and finished with polishing. Grooves along the inside decorate its surface.
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 1st century BCE to early 1st century CE
mid-2nd to early 1st century BCE
mid-2nd to early 1st century BCE
Late 1st century BCE to mid-1st century CE
Late 1st century BCE to mid-1st century CE
mid-2nd to early 1st century BCE
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
Late 1st century BCE to mid-1st century CE
Late 1st century BCE to early 1st century CE
mid-2nd to early 1st century BCE
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