Saddleflask

MS244

From: Phoenicia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS244
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Phoenicia
Manufacture Location Syro-Palestine
Date Made 200-400 CE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Glass
Technique Blown
Description

Glass light green. Rim folded inward and down. Tubular body pinched down the center, creating two chambers. Slightly flattened base with pontil mark. 7 trails laid around body beginning at mid-point. The 2 lower ends of handle, close to body, folded in under lip and up to rim; one with a splayed base, nicked and adjoining some trails; the other shorter with blunt base. Blown, with tooled additions. Basket handle broken off, top of lower handles and rim chipped, trails broken. Dulled inside; incrustation and incipient iridescence outside.

Height 10.4 cm
Outside Diameter 3.7 cm
Credit Line Gift of John H. Harrison, 1895
Other Number GL14 (ancient glass project) - Other Number

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