Flask
Bottle
MS4937
Location: On Display in the Rome Gallery
From: Syria | Aleppo
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4937 |
| Current Location | Rome Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Roman |
| Provenience | Syria | Aleppo |
| Date Made | ca. 100 CE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Glass |
| Technique | Blown | Threading |
| Description | Amber with white threads. Rim broken and repaired. Amber blown glass, narrow neck, flared rim. Single and very long white thread trailed in circles from base and over body to base of neck. Flat base. Patches of white decomposition and purple iridescence. |
| Height | 9.6 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Fr. Vester and Company, American Colony Store, Jerusalem, 1913 |
| Other Number | GL03 (ancient glass project) - Other Number | 1846 - Other Number |
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