Candlestick Unguentarium

MS5519

From: Syria

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS5519
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Roman
Provenience Syria
Period Roman Period
Date Made 1-299 CE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Glass
Technique Free-Blown
Description

Intact. Plain base curves slightly upward toward center. Body slopes inward and has a slightly indented groove running around it. Nearly flat shoulder leads to extremely long neck with a thick flaring lip. Glass is translucent, greenish. Free blown.

Height 18.3 cm
Outside Diameter 6.4 cm
Credit Line Gift of Miss Lydia T. Morris, 1916
Other Number GL19 (ancient glass project) - Other Number

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