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Object Number:86-35-70
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Roman
Provenience: Mediterranean
Manufacture Location: Syro-Palestine (uncertain)
Date Made: 0-299 CE
Late Date: 299
Section:Mediterranean
Materials:Glass
Height: 11.5 cm
Width: 6.5 cm
Depth: 5.5 cm
Outside Diameter:4 cm
Credit Line:Gift of George and Henry J. Vaux, 1985
Other Number:GL11 (ancient glass project) - Other Number

Description

Green glass jar. Concave base; pyriform body; cylindrical neck; out-flaring rim. Dark green applied handle and threading at rim and lower neck. Applied blue threading-band over zig-zag on lower body.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

New Acquisition: Vaux Glass Collection (1988) View Objects in Exhibition
Roman Glass: Reflections on Cultural Change (27 Sep 1997 - 18 Jun 1998) View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

[Book] Fleming, Stuart J. 1999. Roman Glass (II): Reflections on Cultural Change.. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 116, pl. E.115View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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