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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