Bowl
1st century BCE-1st century CE
Description
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);
Dimensions
H. 4.3 x W. 14.6 cm (1 11/16 x 5 3/4 in.)
Provenance
Dr. Harris Kennedy, Milton, MA (by 1932), gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1932.
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