Ribbed Bowl
Ribbed Bowl
Place of OriginProbably Syro-Palestine
DateFirst century BCE
DimensionsH: 2 1/16 in. (5.2 cm); Diam: 5 3/8 in. (13.6 cm); Thickness: 1/4 in. (0.6 cm)
MediumGlass; sagged; rotary-polished on the interior, the top, and the outside of the rim and across the tops of the ribs; fire-polished on the rest of the exterior; cut on the interior.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.675
Not on View
DescriptionBroad, shallow ribbed bowl made of dark yellowish-green glass. The bowl was sagged, then rotary-polished on the interior, the top, and the outside of the rim and across the tops of the ribs, while the rest of the exterior is fire-polished and the interior is cut. It has a sharply outsplayed rim with an almost pointed edge that slopes diagonally inward, a convex curving side, and a slightly concave bottom. On the interior, a wide, pronounced horizontal groove is cut at the junction of the rim and side. On the exterior, twenty-nine narrow but pronounced ribs are set at varying angles around the body and extend almost to the junction of the side and bottom.
Published ReferencesHarden, D. B., "Ancient Glass, I: Pre-Roman," The Archaeological Journal, Vol. 125, 1969, pp. 61 and 71, pl. VIII D (former TMA acc. no. 354-437 cited).
Grose, David F., "Ancient Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 20, no. 3, 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. 68, fig. 4.
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, Catalog No. 223, p. 207, repr. (col.) p. 183, drawing, p. 412.
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
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 early first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
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