Balsamarium
MS5226
From: Palestine | Toobas
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS5226 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Palestine | Toobas |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Glass |
| Description | Heavily iridescent and encrusted glass, original color difficult to tell. Concave disk foot. Tear-shaped body with diagonal ridges across it. Body tapers to narrow neck around which is a thick thread. Thread becomes a skinny handle connecting neck to rim. Rime flares from neck dramatically and edge is folded inward to round it. Rim mirrors foot. |
| Height | 12.2 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Fr. Vester and Company, American Colony Store, Jerusalem, 1913 |
| Other Number | GL15 (Ancient Glass Project) - Other Number | 1233 - Other Number |
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