Condition
Intact.
Description
Thick conical/mastoid bowl with rounded rim and convex bottom. In the interior, 0.7 cm below the rim, three horizontal grooves, each 0.3 cm wide.
Comments and Comparanda
Conical and hemispherical grooved bowls are the most characteristic glass vessels made on the Syro-Palestinian coast in the second half of the second to the middle of the first century BCE. This form appears to have been widespread throughout the Mediterranean from the Levant to the Atlantic Ocean. They were imitating silver bowls. On this form, see Grose, David Frederick. 1979. “The Syro-Palestinian Glass Industry in the Late Hellenistic Period.” Muse 13: 54–67., pp. 54–59, group A; Grose, David Frederick. 1989. Early Ancient Glass: Core-Formed, Rod-Formed, and Cast Vessels and Objects from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Roman Empire, 1600 B.C. to A.D. 50. New York: Hudson Hills Press., pp. 193–194, 204–207, nos. 211–222. Further parallels and discussions on the form include Weinberg, Gladys D. 1970. “Hellenistic Glass from Tel Anafa in Upper Galilee.” Journal of Glass Studies 12: 17–27., p. 21, nos. 1–11; Weinberg, Gladys D. 1973. “Notes on Glass from Upper Galilee.” Journal of Glass Studies 15: 35–36., nos. 1–8; Hayes, John W. 1975. Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum., p. 18, no. 39; Auth, Susan Handler. 1976. Ancient Glass at the Newark Museum from the Eugene Schaefer Collection of Antiquities. Newark, NJ: Newark Museum., p. 45, no. 33; Stern, Eva Marianne, and Birgit Schlick–Nolte. 1994. Early Glass of the Ancient World, 1600 B.C.–A.D. 50: Ernesto Wolf Collection. Ostfildern: Gerd Hatje., pp. 284–285, no. 79; Nenna, Marie-Dominique. 1999. Exploration archéologique de Délos 37: Les verres. Paris: de Boccard., pp. 70, 72, no. c32; Israeli, Yael. 2003. Ancient Glass in the Israel Museum: The Eliahu Dobkin Collection and Other Gifts. Jerusalem: Israel Museum., p. 77, no. 63; Antonaras, Anastassios. 2012. Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press., p. 67, no. 16.
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
Saldern von, Axel, Birgit Nolte, Peter La Baume, and Thea Elisabeth Haevernick. 1974. Gläser der Antike. Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer. Mainz: von Zabern., p. 93, no. 244, plate no. 244.
Exhibitions
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity (Malibu, 2005–2006; 2007; 2009–2010)
Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)