Bowl, cast glass linear cut
Production date
Circa 1st Century BCE
Country
Cyprus
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Object detail
Description
Cast glass linear-cut bowl. Fairly thick translucent amber-coloured glass. Hemispherical with near vertical sides, flat base and slightly outsplayed rim with rounded edge. On interior a single shallow horizotal wheel-cut groove below rim, another two in a band at mid body. Rotary-polished on interior, top and outside of rim. Some encrustation and many cracks (annealling flaws) (Webb, Jennifer M., 1997 "Corpus of Cypriote Antiquities", Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, Vol. XX: p 6)
Classification
DOMESTIC EQUIPMENT Food and Drink Consumption bowl
ARCHAEOLOGY Cypriot
ARCHAEOLOGY Cypriot
Production date
Circa 1st Century BCE
Measurements
H53mm x W110mm x D110mm
Media/Materials description
Glass
Signature/Marks
incised
sticker
sticker
History and use
This unassuming bowl was possibly Italian or Syro-Palestinian manufacture. These bowls are relatively common archaeologically and found throughout Italy, southern France, Spain, North Africa the Agean and the Levant. This bowl is reported to have been acquired by Pitt-Rivers.
Associated person
Registration number
H12683
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