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MS5135

From: Israel | Beth Shean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS5135
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Israel | Beth Shean
Section Mediterranean
Materials Glass
Description

Olive green glass, some iridescence, encrustation inside and some outside. Saddle flask with rounded bottom. Body tapers to neck and rim flares outward and then rolls in to round edge. Over body are horizontal threads of dark opaque green glass. Two right-angle ribbon handles of same glass as threads connect body to rim and on top of these sits another handle which arches over mouths of tubes. Top of one tube missing.

Height 15 cm
Width 8.5 cm
Depth 3.2 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Fr. Vester and Company, American Colony Store, Jerusalem, 1913
Other Number GL16 (ancient glass project) - Other Number | 1385 - Other Number

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