Ribbed Bowl

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Object Name: 
Ribbed Bowl
Place Made: 
Eastern Mediterranean
possibly Syria
possibly Lebanon
Accession Number: 
79.1.147
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 6.3 cm, Diam (max): 11.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
25 BCE-99 CE
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Jerome Strauss
Primary Description: 
Translucent grey-blue glass with swirls of yellow-brown, dull surface with some patches of buff weathering product adhering to interior; mold-pressed, tooled, wheel-cut and lathe-polished. Rim rounded by grinding, straight sided wall bends down and in forming a deep vessel, twenty-one short prominent ribs on exterior below a vertical rib, a corresponding wheel-cut groove on interior 7 mm below rim, two more cut 3 cm below the first, interior lathe-polished, exterior fire-polished; flat base.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Source
1979
Sarkis, Former Collection
Category: 
Origins of Glassmaking
Color: 
Translucent grey-blue
Technique: 
mold-pressed, tooled, wheel-cut, lathe-polished
tooling