Condition
Fully preserved; cracks and breaks visible on one area of the rim.
Description
Fire-polished, slightly flaring rim; shallow body with convex walls; pushed-in, conical, band base; flat bottom. Faint, slanting tooling marks on the base. No pontil mark visible on the bottom.
Comparanda
Barag, Dan. 1970. “Glass Vessels of the Roman and Byzantine Periods in Palestine.” PhD diss. [in Hebrew], Hebrew University, Jerusalem., vol. 2, plate 30, type II:12; Hayes, John W. 1975. Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum., p. 103, no. 372; Barag, Dan. 1978. Hanita Tomb XV. A Tomb of the Third and Early Fourth Century C.E. Atiqot 13. Jerusalem, 1978., pp. 16–17, no. 27, fig. 8; Aviamand, M., and Yael Gorin-Rosen. 1997. “Three Burial Caves from the Roman Period at Hurfeish.” ‘Atiqot 33: 25–37., p. 29, fig. 2:8; Shourkin, Ofra. 1999. “Tombs of the Persian and Roman Periods near Tell er-Ras (Loḥamé Hageta’ot, Area C).” ‘Atiqot 37: 141–163 [Hebrew], 175–177 [English summary]., p. 176, fig. 20:1; Antonaras, Anastassios. 2012. Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press., pp. 106–107, no. 132.
Provenance
1976, Dr. Sidney Port and Idelle Port (Santa Monica, California), donated to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1976
Bibliography
Unpublished
Exhibitions
None