Condition
Fully preserved; mended and weathered.
Description
Fire-polished rim; concave walls tapering toward the flat, slightly concave bottom. On the interior there is incised decoration: 0.5 cm below the rim is one shallow groove, which is 0.4 cm wide; and at mid-body height (2.2 cm below the rim) is one band of parallel, shallow incisions.
Comments and Comparanda
This form of plate is widely distributed, mainly in the western Roman provinces, and is dated to the fourth and fifth centuries CE. The incised decoration quite often found on them indicates that they must had been made in various sites, both in Italy and in the eastern Mediterranean (Isings, Clasina. 1957. Roman Glass from Dated Finds. Groningen: Wolters., pp. 36–37, form 18, or rather pp. 143–144, form 116; Fünfschilling, Sylvia. 2015. Die römischen Gläser aus Augst und Kaiseraugst. Kommentierter Formenkatalog und ausgewählte Neufunde 1981–2010 aus Augusta Raurica. Forschungen in Augst 51. Augst: Augusta Raurica., pp. 322–323, form AR 55.1; Antonaras, Anastassios. 2017. Glassware and Glassworking in Thessaloniki: First Century BC–Sixth Century AD. Oxford: Archaeopress., pp. 66–67, form 16, wherein many parallels are cited).
Provenance
1950, Spink & Son, Ltd. (London, England), sold to J. Paul Getty, 1950; 1950–1976, J. Paul Getty, American, 1892–1976, upon his death, held in trust by the estate; 1976–1978, Estate of J. Paul Getty, American, 1892–1976, distributed to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1978
Bibliography
Unpublished
Exhibitions
None