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Roman Glass


RG052
Early Roman amber glass ribbed bowl.
1st century BC - early 1st century AD.
D. 10.67 cm (4 1/4 in.), H. 5.5 cm (2 1/8 in.)
Intact.

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Mold-made bowl of golden amber color, with hemispherical body, decorated with a set of protruding vertical ribs. Base slightly concave, fire-polished rim, with a horizontal wheel-cut groove at the interior under the rim.

Cf. (wider bowl with the same kind of ribbing) Grose, D. F., Toledo Museum of Art, 1989, p. 264, fig. 232.
Kunina, N., Hermitage Collection, 1997, Cat. No. 30 (in bluish color), 31, pp. 70-71.
(In different color) Hayes, Royal Ontario Museum, 1975, p. 190, fig. 52.

 



Grose, D. F., The Toledo Museum of Art. Early Ancient Glass, New York, 1989.

Kunina, N., Ancient Glass in the Hermitage Collection, St. Petersburg, ARS Publishing House, 1997.

Hayes, J. W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum. A Catalogue, Toronto, 1975.

 


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