Condition
Intact; small areas with incrustation, especially on the inside; few pinprick bubbles.
Description
Flaring, in-folded, tubular rim; short, cylindrical neck; squat globular body; slightly concave bottom. Twelve small, pinched projections around widest diameter. No pontil mark on the bottom. There is a thread of the same-colored glass looped along one side of the interior of the mouth and neck, apparently applied by mistake.
Comments and Comparanda
Squat globular flasks with a row of pinched warts around their greatest diameter are known from several Syro-Palestinian sites (Barag, Dan. 1970. “Glass Vessels of the Roman and Byzantine Periods in Palestine.” PhD diss. [in Hebrew], Hebrew University, Jerusalem., vol. 2, plate 43, type 15.33-1; Delougaz, Pinhas, and Richard C. Haines. 1960 A Byzantine Church at Khirbat al-Karak. University of Chicago Oriental Institute Publications 85. Chicago: University of Chicago Press., plate 50, no. 9, from a grave at Khirbat al-Karak, sixth to mid-seventh century CE; Harden, Donald Benjamin. 1964. “Some Tomb Groups of Late Roman Date in the Amman Museum.” In Annales du 3e Congrès International d’Étude Historique du Verre, Damas, 14–23 novembre 1964, 48–55. Liège: Ed. du Secrétariat général., pp. 53–54, fig. 13, top row, no. 5, from Ajlun, sixth to early seventh century CE; Bauer, P. C. V. 1938. “Glassware.” In Gerasa: City of the Decapolis. An Account Embodying the Record of a Joint Excavation Conducted by Yale University and the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem (1928–1930), and Yale University and the American Schools of Oriental Research (1930–1931, 1933–1934), ed. Carl Hermann Kraeling, 513–546. New Haven, CT: American Schools of Oriental Research., p. 540, no. 87, fig. 28:4, plate 151:a, undecorated example from Jerash; Stern, Eva Marianne. 2001. Roman, Byzantine, and Early Medieval Glass, 10 BCE–700 CE: Ernesto Wolf Collection. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz., p. 354, no. 201; Antonaras, Anastassios. 2012. Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press., p. 155, no. 218). Also comparable are pinched vessels with tall and wide neck: Barag, Dan. 1970. “Glass Vessels of the Roman and Byzantine Periods in Palestine.” PhD diss. [in Hebrew], Hebrew University, Jerusalem., vol. 2, plate 43, type XV:27-1 (variant); Matheson, Susan B. 1980. Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery., p. 111, no. 289; cf. Gawlikowska, Krystyna, and Khaled As’ad. 1994. “The Collection of Glass Vessels in the Museum of Palmyra.” Studia Palmyrenskie 9: 5–36., nos. 34–40, plate III:9–17; Antonaras, Anastassios. 2012. Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press., p. 154, no. 214.
Provenance
By 1974–1988, Erwin Oppenländer, 1901–1988 (Waiblingen, Germany), by inheritance to his son, Gert Oppenländer, 1988; 1988–2003, Gert Oppenländer (Waiblingen, Germany), sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003
Bibliography
Saldern von, Axel, Birgit Nolte, Peter La Baume, and Thea Elisabeth Haevernick. 1974. Gläser der Antike. Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer. Mainz: von Zabern., p. 244, no. 714.
Exhibitions
Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)