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LOT 0764
Roman Glass Handled Jar
4TH CENTURY A.D.
3 in. (39.4 grams, 78 mm wide).
With dimpled base, bulbous body with opposed dimples to the sidewall, applied flange to the neck, applied trails forming lateral handles.
ProvenanceFrom an important London collection of glass, 1990s.
LiteratureSee Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass: The Corning Museum of Glass, volume I, New York, 1997, items 297-298, for similar.
FootnotesThese biconical jars with opposed handles, rounded lips and overhanging tubular flanges are typical of the late Roman period. There are Syro-Palestinian types, with similar examples having been found in Beit Fajjar, West Bank, Palestine.
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