Saddleflask

MS5484

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS5484
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Manufacture Location Syro-Palestine (uncertain)
Period Late Roman Period
Section Mediterranean
Materials Glass
Technique Blown
Description

Green glass coated in black dust or soot and some encrustation. Saddle flask tapering from rounded base to rim. Glass threads wrapped horizontally around body and one thread zigzagged between topmost horizontal thread and rim. Rim flares out and rolled inward to round edge.

Height 11.9 cm
Thickness 3.2 cm
Outside Diameter 4.6 cm
Credit Line Gift of Miss Lydia T. Morris, 1916
Other Number GL14 (Ancient Glass Project) - Other Number

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