Beaker
MS5552
Location: On Display in the Rome Gallery
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS5552 |
| Current Location | Rome Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Roman |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Roman Period |
| Date Made | Late 4th c. CE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Glass |
| Technique | Blown | Threading |
| Description | Wine beaker with threaded decoration. Blown colourless, light greenish glass; rim rounded and splaying; chalice shaped body (slightly concave); foot plate solid, on a small flattened base with pontil mark. Single thread of same glass around upper body. Intact; iridescence, metallic white, very streaky. |
| Height | 11.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 7 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Miss Lydia T. Morris, 1916 |
| Other Number | GL07 (ancient glass project) - Other Number |
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