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342. Flask (Pastiche)

Accession Number 79.AF.184.18
Dimensions H. 4.9, Diam. rim 3.0, Diam. base 3.0 cm; Wt. 21.97 g
Date Second–third centuries CE
Production Area Eastern Mediterranean
Material Translucent greenish glass
Modeling Technique and Decoration Free-blown
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Condition

Mended; a concealed join at the transition from the neck to the body. Iridescence on the exterior, incrustation on the interior. Pastiche (XRF and visual observation suggest the neck and body are from two different objects).

Description

Fire-polished, flaring rim; cylindrical neck; globular body; slightly concave bottom. A circular mark of a solid pontil (W. 0.8 cm) is visible at the center of the bottom.

Comments and Comparanda

The neck belonged to a taller unguentarium, either tear-shaped (e.g., , p. 24, form 8; , p. 149, form 126a) or, more probably, conical (, pp. 151–152, forms 128, 130), forms generally dated to the first and second centuries CE.

The body, which is made of a darker shade of green, belongs to a smaller globular unguentarium, a form that appears already from the early third, becomes popular in the fourth, and survives into the fifth century (, p. 120, miniature version of form 101; , p. 157, form 139).

Provenance

1979, Edwin A. Lipps, 1922–1988 (Pacific Palisades, California), donated to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1979.

Bibliography

Unpublished

Exhibitions

None