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bowl

Object NameBowl

Made FromGlass

Date25 BCE-50 CE

TechniqueSagged, tooled, lathe-cut

SizeOverall H: 15.4 cm, Diam: 5.7 cm

Accession Number55.1.77

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Exhibitions

Spezil-Verzeichniss der im Auktions

Antikes Glas aus der Sammlung Ray Winfield Smith: Kurpfalzischen Museum Heidelberg

Glass of the Caesars

Glass from the Ancient World

Glass from the Ancient World: So Diverse a Unity

Verres Antiques de la Collection R.W. Smith

Place Made

Roman Empire; Eastern Mediterranean

Physical DescriptionTransparent amethyst glass with colorless streak, bubbly; probably sagged, tooled and lathe-cut. Shallow bowl; rim, rounded by grinding, flares up and slightly out from body, which bulges, then curves in toward bottom; base slightly concave. On body, forty-eight irregular, more or less vertical ribs descend from immediately below rim towards bottom, but most taper and disappear above base. Obvious tool marks below rim. Interior has wide lathe-cut groove, 1.8 cm below rim.
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