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229. Plate

Accession Number 2003.387
Dimensions H. 1.7, Diam. rim 14.7, Diam. base 13.2 cm; Wt. 140.09 g
Date Third–fourth centuries CE
Production Area Eastern Mediterranean
Material Translucent bluish glass
Modeling Technique and Decoration Free-blown
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Condition

Fully preserved; small chips on the rim. Parts covered with crust and iridescent weathering.

Description

Ground, vertical rim; conical body, flat bottom. A fine groove under the rim on the interior. Two incised concentric grooves at the middle of the bottom and a pair of small ones at the center of it.

Comments and Comparanda

Plates of similar shape, usually with mildly convex—and not flat—bottom and with incised decoration, are mainly known in western Roman provinces, dated to the fourth and fifth centuries CE. For parallels, see comments on cat. 230.

Provenance

By 1974–1988, Erwin Oppenländer, 1901–1988 (Waiblingen, Germany), by inheritance to his son, Gert Oppenländer, 1988; 1988–2003, Gert Oppenländer (Waiblingen, Germany), sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003

Bibliography

, p. 207, no. 583.

, pp. 104, 118, fig. 87.

Exhibitions

Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity (Malibu, 2005–2006; 2007; 2009–2010)

Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)