Glass beaker

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent light green.
Rim folded out and up, cracked off; conical body, tapering downwards; small, flattened bottom.
On body, upper zone of thirty-five vertical ribs, extending upwards to underside of rim, with an irregular honeycomb pattern below extending across bottom.
Intact; pinprick bubbles and blowing striations; patches of dulling, pitting, and iridescent weathering.

With sides ribbed and grooved.

Glass beaker, Glass, Roman

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