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252. Bowl

Accession Number 2004.38
Dimensions H. 8.1, Diam. rim 11.2, Diam. base 5.5, Th. 0.2 cm; Wt. 200.35 g
Date Third–fourth centuries CE
Production Area Eastern Mediterranean or Europe
Material Transparent greenish glass
Modeling Technique and Decoration Free-blown; faceted
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Condition

Intact. Small parts covered with brownish weathering and iridescence.

Description

Cracked-off and ground, slightly uneven rim; conical body, standing on a flat bottom. Under the rim, two fine, horizontal wheel-cut grooves flank a row of sparsely arranged rice-shaped, wheel-cut incisions. Further below, the body is covered with six rows of loosely arranged wheel-cut incisions, which leave small lozenge-shaped flat areas among them. The four upper rows comprise oval incisions, and the lower two are circular. On the bottom is a central circular incision surrounded by a row of six oval incisions.

Comments and Comparanda

On the shape and the decoration, see comments on cat. 250.

Provenance

By 1974–1988, Erwin Oppenländer, 1901–1988 (Waiblingen, Germany), by inheritance to his daughter, Ingrid Reisser, 1988; 1988–2004, Ingrid Reisser (Böblingen, Germany), sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2004

Bibliography

, p. 185, no. 512.

Exhibitions

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

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