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Object NameFragment of Ribbed Bowl

Made FromGlass

Date25 BCE-99 CE

Techniquecast, tooled or pressed, mold-sagged, ground, polished

SizeOverall L: 13.8 cm

Accession Number95.1.75

Credit LineBequest of Jerome Strauss

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Place Made

Roman Empire; perhaps Italy

Physical DescriptionDeep purple translucent; white opaque glasses; blank formed from slices of purple and white canes with spiral pattern, cast as disk; surface of disk ribbed by tooling or pressing; blank then sagged over former mold; rim and interior finished by grinding and polishing. Bowl: fairly deep. Rim plain; wall descends almost vertically, then curves in; parts of seven vertical ribs. Composite mosaic pattern formed by slices of canes with purple matrix and white spiral.
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