The bowl with Arabic Inscription from the Islamic culture with its monumental presence and the artful arrangement of its letters, in which vertical flourishes punctuate the horizontal flow of the words at rhythmic intervals, this bowl stands out among the many other inscribed ceramics of the same period (made from Earthenware). The Grass Garland Bowl from the Roman comprises four separate slices of translucent glass-purple, yellow, blue, and colorless-of roughly equal size that were pressed together in an open casting mold. As such it represents the peak of the glass worker's skill at producing cast vessels (made from glass). The Terracotta Bowl from the Etruscan culture has a woman's head in the center and is made of Terracotta. These three bowls show historians today of what was available to the Islamic, Roman, and Etruscan cultures. We now get to examine these pieces and interpret what each culture valued.