Bowl
Bowl
Place of OriginSyria, Palestine, or Italy
DateLate 1st century BCE to early 1st century CE
Dimensions2 3/16 × 4 3/8 in. (5.6 × 11.1 cm)
MediumGlass; sagged, 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
1923.504
Not on View
DescriptionThis golden-brown glass bowl, made in the early Roman period, has a flaring rim and vertical sides. It was shaped with heat and carefully polished. Grooves inside the bowl decorate its surface.
Published ReferencesGrose, David F., "Ancient Glass," TMA Museum News, no. 20, 1978, p. 77, fig. 13.
Grose, 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. 7, p. 72, repr.
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, Hudson Hills Press in Association with the Toledo Museum of Art, New York, 1989, cat. no. 249, p. 269, repr. (col.) p. 213, drawing, p. 413.
Arts, P.L.W., "A Collection of Ancient Glass 500 BC - 500 AD," ANTIEK Lochem, 2000, p. 88.
Late 1st century BCE to early 1st century CE
mid-2nd to early 1st century BCE
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
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
mid-2nd to early 1st century BCE
Late 1st century BCE to early 1st century CE
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