Glass ribbed bowl

Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent honey brown but with greenish tinge.
Slightly inverted rim with almost pointed top edge; sides curving in to uneven, flat bottom.
On interior, a band of two horizontal grooves below rim; on exterior, twenty diagonal ribs of varying length, width, and thickness, with irregular rounded tops, arranged around central part of side.
Intact; a few pinprick bubbles; dulling on interior and around plain band below rim on exterior; some encrustation in upper groove on interior, and many surface scratch marks.
Rotary grinding marks on interior; tooling marks in band below rim on exterior.

Glass ribbed bowl, Glass, Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

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