Ancient Roman Eastern Mediterranean Glass Jar
SKU: S.239
Period: Roman Period.
Date: 3rd – 4th century AD.
Dimension: 8.2cm.
Condition: In very good condition intact.
Description
Description
Ancient Roman Eastern Mediterranean Glass Jar
3rd–4th century CE
Syria–Palestine
bluish, bubbly / Blown
great Blue Patina, Warped tubular rim, folded inward, wide neck, squat globular body, concave base with high conical protrusion toward interior, pontil mark. Between upper part of body and rim, a trail rises and falls ten times in a zigzag around vessel, its ends attached to the wall and the rim. Slightly cloudy.
In very good condition intact.
Barag 1970, type VI 9; Abel 1923, fig. 2; Guy 1938, pl. 175; Saller 1957, fig. 34:20; Bagatti and Milik 1958, fig. 35:7,8; Abdul Hak 1965, fig. 15, p. 30; Vitto and Edelstein 1974, p. 55; Barag 1976, no. 30
