Currently not on view
Cup,
1st century CE
Roman Imperial Period, ca. 30 BCE–476 CE
y1946-236
Information
Title
Cup
Dates
1st century CE
Medium
Transparent bluish glass
Dimensions
6.3 x 8.6 cm, diam. rim 6.7 cm (2 1/2 x 3 3/8 x 2 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Platt from the bequest of Dan Fellows Platt, Class of 1895
Object Number
y1946-236
Place Made
Black Sea area ?
Description
Cut off, vertical, slightly flaring rim; hemispherical body; flat bottom. The upper part of the body is covered with vertical ribs; on the lower part are four concentric horizontal rings. Concentric rings and one central knob on the bottom.
Materials
Subject
Given to the Museum by Mrs. Platt from bequest of Dan Fellows Platt
- John W. Hayes, Roman and pre-Roman glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, (Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1975)., p. 66, no. 200
- E. Marianne Stern, Roman, Byzantine, and early medieval glass, 10 BCE-700 CE: Ernesto Wolf collection, (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz; New York: 2001)., p. (?) 113; no. 13
- Anastassios Antonaras, Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2012), cat. no. 504 (illus.)
