Condition
Intact; on most of the interior and on small parts of the exterior, cream and iridescent areas of weathering.
Description
Slightly everted, almost vertical, smooth, fire-rounded rim; deep body decorated with 31 vertical, short ribs; flat, slightly concave bottom. At the exterior, the band below the rim was flattened with a blunt tool detectable on the upper end of the ribs. The ribs are slightly oblique, slanting from right to left at the bottom; unequal in size, ranging from 2.2 to 3 cm, and unevenly spaced. In three cases, the rib was not formed and in its place is visible only a small protuberance. In the interior, two horizontal grooves 0.2 cm wide are incised at 0.8 and 1.6 cm below the rim.
Comments and Comparanda
On this form of vessel, see cat. 71. Also see Harden, Donald Benjamin. 1940–48. “Appendix 1. The Glass.” In Joan du Plat Taylor, “Roman Tombs at ‘Kambi,’ Vasa.” Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus 1940–48: 46–60., p. 49, fig. 20:b and c; Isings, Clasina. 1957. Roman Glass from Dated Finds. Groningen: Wolters., form 3b; 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. 266–267, nos. 239–242; 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. 294–295, no. 84; Ovadiah, Ruth. 1999. “A Burial Cave of the Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods at Hagosherim.” ‘Atiqot 38: 33–47 [Hebrew], 223–224 [English summary]., pp. 223–224, fig. 3:1; Israeli, Yael. 2003. Ancient Glass in the Israel Museum: The Eliahu Dobkin Collection and Other Gifts. Jerusalem: Israel Museum., p. 80, no. 68; Antonaras, Anastassios. 2012. Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press., pp. 69–70, nos. 21–22.
Provenance
1908, Arnold Vogell, 1857–1911 (Karlsruhe, Germany) [sold, Griechische Altertümer südrussischen Fundorts aus dem Besitze des Herrn A. Vogell, Karlsruhe (Versteigerung), Max Cramer, Cassel, Germany, May 26–30, 1908, lot 942]; 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
Cramer, Max. 1908. Griechische Altertümer südrussischen Fundorts aus dem Besitze des Herrn A. Vogell, Karlsruhe. Versteigerung zu Cassel in der Gewerbehalle, Friedrich-Wilhelmsplatz 6. Cassel: G. Gotthelft., no. 942, plate 12.4.
Saldern von, Axel, Birgit Nolte, Peter La Baume, and Thea Elisabeth Haevernick. 1974. Gläser der Antike. Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer. Mainz: von Zabern., p. 96, no. 252.
Exhibitions
Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)