Lentoid Flask

MS5584

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS5584
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Section Mediterranean
Materials Glass
Description

Dark green glass with streaks of brown, especially on neck. Thim film of encrustation outside, thicker on inside. Base formed by deep indent of pontil mark. Body flattened tear-drop shaped with widest part near bottom of body. Body tapers inward from bottom in both width and depth to meet narrow, cylindrical neck. Rim flares outward and has been smoothed out on edge.

Height 15.8 cm
Depth 3.2 cm
Outside Diameter 2.6 cm
Credit Line Gift of Miss Lydia T. Morris, 1916
Other Number GL13 (ancient glass project) - Other Number

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