Object Number | MS5210 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Islamic |
Provenience | Syria | Aleppo |
Date Made | 7th–8th century CE |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Glass |
Technique | Mosaic | Blown |
Description | Opaque black glass with some iridescence and encrustation. Vial with rounded bottom. Bottom has slightly flattened area from pontil mark. Body flares from base to shoulder and is decorated with 6 trailing horizontal bands of opaque reddish-brown glass. Shoulder turns inward to meet narrow base of neck. Neck flares and ends in rounded edge of rim. |
Height | 10.9 cm |
Outside Diameter | 2.7 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from Fr. Vester and Company, American Colony Store, Jerusalem, 1913 |
Other Number | GL03 (ancient glass project) - Other Number | 2977 - Other Number |
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