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Transparent blue-green glass beaker with ring base, tall, cylindrical body that widens at top, and thin, flaring lip

Beaker

Graeco-Roman

Intact beaker in transparent blue-green glass; pushed in ring forming solid base; tall slender body with tapering sides; thin flared lip. Register of wheel-cut horizontal line on the upper body, 2.5 cm from rim. Intact; exterior has been cleaned, flaking iridescence and dirt accretions on interior. Classification: C. Isings, Roman Glass from Dated Finds (Djakarta: Groningen, 1957), form 34 Comparison: Corning Museum 68.1.68; Metropolitan Museum of Art 81.10.92

Glass

Roman Imperial period

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