Amphora
MS5135
From: Israel | Beth Shean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
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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