Early Islamic Glass
SKU: S.197.
Period: Islamic Period.
Date: 7th – 8th Century AD.
Dimension: 5.5 cm.
Condition: In very good condition.
Description
Description
Unusual Early Islamic Glass, 7th /8th Century AD.
Small globular vessel with a short wide neck, a thickened rim and a concave base. The two handles between the shoulder and rim are formed of two strips of glass with the upper end protruding.
A white glass thread is applied horizontally in a row of irregular zigzags.
No. S.197
This amphoriskos small jar cylindrical bottles made of dark almost opaque black glass
Unusual in its manufacture technique
Formed around an iron rod rather than blown,
The jar lent a cylindrical inner conformation in place of the globularity resulting from blowing.
Although the technique of winding glass around a core prevailed before the discovery of glass blowing
See A GLIMPSE INTO THE PAST, THE JOSEPH TERNBACH COLLECTION page 176.
Note “Some reference mentioned it as Byzantine” see: Ancient Glass in the Israel Museum, No393 (4th/5th Century)
