Saddleflask

MS245

From: Phoenicia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS245
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Phoenicia
Manufacture Location Syro-Palestine
Date Made 200-400 CE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Glass
Technique Blown
Description

Glass green. Rim slightly flared, folded inward and down. Tubular body pinched down the center creating two chambers. Base flattened with pontil mark. Trails laid around body below mid-point. Basket handle folded under rim on sides, slightly flared out again and attached at mid-point, one handle base adjoining trails. Blown with tooled additions. Hole inside of one tube under handle-fold, cracking up to rim; chip off basket handle. Above rim trails broken. Bubbly glass, slight pitting. Dulled inside, milky layer outside, incipient iridescence.

Height 15.7 cm
Width 6.3 cm
Credit Line Gift of John H. Harrison, 1895
Other Number GL14 (ancient glass project) - Other Number

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