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LOT 0630
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.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
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.
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