Bowl
Bowl
Place of OriginSyria, Palestine or Italy
DateLate first century BCE to early first 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
DescriptionHemispherical bowl. Golden-brown. Slightly outsplayed rim with rounded edge; almost vertical side turning abruptly inward and downward to the bottom; 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.
DESCRIPTION Hemispherical bowl. Slightly out-splayed rim with rounded edge; almost vertical side turning abruptly inward and downward to the bottom; slightly concave bottom. On the interior, three narrow horizontal grooves: one be-low the rim, the other two in a band around the middle of the body.
TECHNIQUE Sagged; rotary-polished on the interior, the top, and the outside of the rim; fire-polished on the rest of the exterior.
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 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
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
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
Mid-second to early first century BCE
Mid-second to early first century BCE
Late first century BCE to mid-first century CE
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