Saddleflask
MS5232
From: Palestine | Beit Jibrin
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS5232 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Palestine | Beit Jibrin |
| Date Made | 200-499 CE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Glass |
| Technique | Blown |
| Description | Green glass heavily encrusted and iridescent. Saddle flask with flat bottom and 2 cylindrical tubes. Tubes decorated with vertical ridges. Rims folded inward to create rounded edge and slight flare. Two trailing handles connect rims to body. |
| Height | 13.2 cm |
| Width | 6.3 cm |
| Depth | 2.8 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Fr. Vester and Company, American Colony Store, Jerusalem, 1913 |
| Other Number | GL14 (Ancient Glass Project) - Other Number | 3012 - Other Number |
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