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Source Description
The dark brown glaze on the exterior of this beaker is patchy and irregular, allowing the light red clay beneath to show through. The glaze is especially light on the ridges of the raised scales that decorate the upper body of the vessel, arranged in four offset rows. The pattern was created by applying thick clay slip to the surface of the beaker after it was removed from the potter’s wheel.
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Document identity
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156390
label
Beaker with Scale Pattern
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object
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Source metadata
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156390
contentType
object
title
Beaker with Scale Pattern
description
The dark brown glaze on the exterior of this beaker is patchy and irregular, allowing the light red clay beneath to show through. The glaze is especially light on the ridges of the raised scales that decorate the upper body of the vessel, arranged in four offset rows. The pattern was created by applying thick clay slip to the surface of the beaker after it was removed from the potter’s wheel.
date
1–100 CE
rights
CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60753855
genreSpecific
Ceramic
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Diameter: 10.2 cm (4 in.); Overall: 11.2 cm (4 7/16 in.)
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Rhenish (Cologne), Gallo-Roman, 1st Century
accession
1992.183
Source extras
tec
reddish ware with dark gray burnished slip
tombstone
Beaker with Scale Pattern, 1–100 CE. Rhenish (Cologne), Gallo-Roman, 1st Century. Reddish ware with dark gray burnished slip; diameter: 10.2 cm (4 in.); overall: 11.2 cm (4 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Rainer Zietz, 1992.183
collection
GR - Roman
didYouKnow
Several textile fibers were found inside this beaker, suggesting that it may have contained an object or objects wrapped in cloth when it was buried.
citations
citation
Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1992." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 80, no. 2 (1993): 38-79.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 41; Mentioned: p. 41, 65
creditline
Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Rainer Zietz
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2026-05-29 08:08:10.376000
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156390
dept
Greek and Roman Art
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GR - Roman
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reddish ware with dark gray burnished slip
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