Lentoid Flask
MS5271
From: Syria | Aleppo
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS5271 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Syria | Aleppo |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Glass |
| Technique | Blown |
| Description | Dark yellow glass, iridescent with some interior decomposition and a few patches of encrustation. Concave base with pontil mark. Body flattened circular shape with 4 horizontal pinches in glass, 2 to a face. Each face circular, but each side tapers from base to short, cylindrical neck. Rim is perpendicular to neck, wide, and flat. 2 small handles connect rim with shoulder. |
| Height | 12 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Fr. Vester and Company, American Colony Store, Jerusalem, 1913 |
| Other Number | GL13 (ancient glass project) - Other Number | 1819 - Other Number |
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