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MS5493

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Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS5493
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Late Imperial Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Late Imperial Roman Period
Date Made 100-199 CE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Glass
Description

Intact. Flaring base ring, depressed spherical body, tall narrow neck, lip rolled inward, heavy reeded ribbon handle attached at shoulder, folded at rim, squeezed off below rim. Handle and base greener than body. Glass: thin, light green at core, slight iridescence.

Height 23.3 cm
Outside Diameter 13.6 cm
Credit Line Gift of Miss Lydia T. Morris, 1916
Other Number GL11 (Ancient Glass Project) - Other Number

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