Saddleflask
Object Number:
MS244
Current Location:
Collections storage
Provenience:
Phoenicia
Manufacture Location:
Syro-Palestine
Date Made:
200-400 AD
Early Date:
200
Late Date:
400
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:
10.4cm
Outside Diamater:
3.7cm
Other Number:
| GL14 (ancient glass project) | - | Other Number |
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