Acquisition number: 1978.10
In excellent condition. Good, clear translucent green glass with very few internal bubbles or faults.
The dish has a wide base with near-flat floor. Flaring lip with out-turned rim. Ring foot (flattened and folded), the application of which has created a convex moulding on the upper face of the floor at the junction with the lip.
Title: Dish - 1978.10
Acquisition number: 1978.10
Culture or period: Roman Imperial
Date: Late 1st - early 2nd century AD.
Material: Glass
Object type: Vessels - Dish/plate
Dimensions: 294mm (w) × 47mm (h)
Display case or on loan: 9
Keywords: Roman, Imperial, Glass
Sotheby (London), Sale Cat., 3-4 July 1978, no. 47, pl. 4.
1978.10
Dish
Purchased. Ht 4.7cm; diam. 29.4cm.
In excellent condition. Good, clear translucent green glass with very few internal bubbles or faults.
The dish has a wide base with near-flat floor. Flaring lip with out-turned rim. Ring foot (flattened and folded), the application of which has created a convex moulding on the upper face of the floor at the junction with the lip.
The piece is remarkably light in weight.
Late first – early second century AD; Flavian and later: see Form 49 (Isings, Roman Glass from Dated Finds,Groningen 1957, 63), and Cypriot examples (O. Vessberg, “Roman Glass in Cyprus”, Opuscula Archaeologica 7, 1952, 140ff., pl.I.7).
For some other glass dishes, see D. Whitehouse, Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, i (Corning NY, 1997) nos 77-80, a pair of them illustrated again on his p. 226. For the shape compare the pottery type, J.W. Hayes, Late Roman Pottery (Rome 1972) pl. 9a.
Sotheby (London), Sale Cat., 3-4 July 1978, no. 47, pl. 4.