bowl

Object NameBowl

Made FromGlass

Date200-399

Techniqueblown, wheel-cut, polished

SizeOverall H: 8.3 cm, Diam: 9.4 cm

Accession Number79.1.271

Credit LineBequest of Jerome Strauss

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Place Made

Sasanian Empire; Eastern Roman Empire

Physical DescriptionTransparent pale green glass; blown; cracked off; cut and polished. Bowl with short, everted rim, cracked off and ground; roughly globular body with greatest diameter above mid-point; rounded base; no pontil mark. Decoration: five horizontal bands of narrow oval depressions which are wheel-cut and slightly polished; top and second rows have forty-seven depressions, third row has forty-one, fourth row has thirty-three, and bottom row has twenty-two depressions.
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