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Translucent cobalt blue glass bowl with several irregular white marks, a short concave shoulder and convex, ribbed sides

Ribbed Bowl

Roman

Intact, ribbed bowl in translucent, cobalt glass. Rim flairs from a constricted shoulder; globular body with trail of opaque white wound around the shoulder and marvered into the surface; wheel-cut horizontal groove beneath the rim; narrow, vertical ribs have been tooled around the body. Classification: C. Isings, Roman Glass from Dated Finds (Djakarta: Groningen, 1957), form 17 Comparison: Corning Museum of Glass 58.1.35

Glass

Roman Imperial period, Early

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