Flask
Bottle
MS5005
Location: On Display in the Rome Gallery
From: Syria
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS5005 |
| Current Location | Rome Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Roman |
| Provenience | Syria |
| Date Made | mid 1st c. CE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Glass |
| Technique | Blown | Threading |
| Description | Perfume Bottle; cobalt blue with white threads. Very slight iridescence. Blown bright blue glass. Delicate spirals of white thread decoration around body, to base which tapers to a point. |
| Height | 16.7 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 3.3 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Fr. Vester and Company, American Colony Store, Jerusalem, 1913 |
| Other Number | GL08 (ancient glass project) - Other Number | 2562 - Other Number |
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