Vases Bowl
Bowl

Bowl

1st century BCE-1st century CE
Intact bowl in transparent, cobalt blue glass; broad and shallow with thick, rounded vertical walls; upright rim with rounded edge. On the interior, two narrow horizontal bands around the body: one below the rim, the other around the middle of the body. On the exterior, two wheel-cut grooves below the rim.

Classification: C. Isings, Roman Glass from Dated Finds (Djakarta: Groningen, 1957), form 18; David Grose, "The Syro-Palestinian Glass Industry in the Later Hellenistic Period," MUSE 13: 1979, Group D, p. 56 and 63-65.

Comparisons: Corning Museum of Glass 79.1.34 and Metropolitan Museum of Art 74.51.296 (for shape and technique);
Period
Hellenistic period, Late, to Early Roman Imperial
Date
1st century BCE-1st century CE
Culture
Roman
Dimensions
W: 37.08 cm
Medium
Glass
Findspot
Ancient & Byzantine World
Museum
Harvard Art Museums
Accession Number
1932.56.106
Image Source
harvard
Images courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0)