Roman Green Glass Vessel

4TH-5TH CENTURY A.D.

4 1/4 in. (48 grams, 11 cm).

Transparent pale green with bulbous body, rounded lip, flared neck and concave base.

Provenance

Ex London, UK, collection, 1980-1990s.

Literature

Cf. Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol.2, New York, 1997, item 623, for similar.

Footnotes

The small bottle can be associated with the Isings form 104b. There are some parallels from graves at Beit Ras, Jordan and Samaria-Sebaste. Some models of the type have faint ribs.

CONDITION

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