roman green glass cup or acetabulum

roman green glass cup or acetabulum

Hemispherical body on pad base, slightly flaring to rounded rim with pinched-out ridge or tubular flange below. Ex priv. coll. L.M. N., Netherlands, acq. from Galerie Persepolis, The Hague 1970s

H. 3,9 cm. Intact, apart from one chip from base, silvery iridescence
1 st cent. AD

 Cf. Oppenländer, RGM, Köln 1974-5, p. 108, no. 295; H.v. Rossum, Roman and Early Byzantine Glass, 2009, p. 20