Glass bowl with painted lid 2nd century Roman, Cypriot Bowl (): Translucent blue , knocked-off rim, with ground upper edge; narrow concave neck; sack-shaped body with side expanding downwards to rounded carination, then sloping inwards; small bottom, pushed in to form tall spike-like side above carination, two narrow wheel-abraded horizontal but one vertical crack from rim down side; few bubbles; soil encrustation, slight dulling, and creamy brown ():Translucent blue turned down and inwards with unworked inne
Glass bowl with painted lid 2nd century Roman, Cypriot Bowl (): Translucent blue , knocked-off rim, with ground upper edge; narrow concave neck; sack-shaped body with side expanding downwards to rounded carination, then sloping inwards; small bottom, pushed in to form tall spike-like side above carination, two narrow wheel-abraded horizontal but one vertical crack from rim down side; few bubbles; soil encrustation, slight dulling, and creamy brown ():Translucent blue turned down and inwards with unworked inner lip; concave upper in black lines on interior: woman seated to right but head turned to left with bare upper body and drapery below, flanked at bottom with flowers; objects in field to left (altar and offerings?).Intact; few bubbles; patches of creamy weathering and brilliant on the inside of the lid is a sketched drawing, possibly of the goddess Aphrodite. Similar vessels, decorated on the lid with various figures in black ink, are known principally from Glass bowl with painted lid. Roman, Cypriot. 2nd century Glass; blown and cold-painted. Mid Imperial. Glass
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