Glass bowl with painted decoration
Ground vertical rim; side of body sloping in and rounded at bottom; flat bottom.
Painted and gilded decoration on interior: a pointed monument, clearly identifiable as a betyl (a type of cult object common in the Near East), flanked by a wall and trees.
Broken and repaired with areas of fill; some pinprick bubbles; rotary grinding marks; black, enamel-like weathering and iridescence.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass bowl with painted decoration
- Period: Hellenistic
- Date: 3rd century BCE
- Culture: Greek
- Medium: glass; cast and painted
- Dimensions: Diameter: 8 in. (20.3 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Purchase, The Concordia Foundation Gift, 2005
- Object Number: 2005.269.2
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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