Glass bowl with painted decoration

Unknown

3rd century BCE · glass · Greek and Roman Art

Colorless; gilding and red enamel paint. 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.

Artist

Unknown

Date

3rd century BCE

Medium

glass

Culture

Greek

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Purchase, The Concordia Foundation Gift, 2005