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393. Flask

Accession Number 79.AF.184.7
Dimensions H. body 4.1, H. neck-rim 1.6, Diam. rim 2.6, Diam. body 2.0, max. Diam. 4.3 cm; Wt. 42.38 g
Date Eighth–tenth centuries CE
Production Area Eastern Mediterranean
Material Translucent light greenish glass (neck); translucent emerald green glass (body)
Modeling Technique and Decoration Mold-blown
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Condition

Exterior partly iridescent; interior covered with incrustation. Consists of two pieces, rim and neck, and body piece. Probably a pastiche. The body is ground and flattened around the neck, probably in modern times, so that it could fit with the neck piece.

Description

Flaring end, in-folded and flattened, forming a horizontal flange that considerably shrinks the width of the opening; short, cylindrical neck; globular body decorated with 20 deep vertical ribs arranged all around; mildly convex bottom. On the bottom, a scar, probably annular pontil scar (W. approx. 1.3, Th. 0.1 cm). Signs of a diaphragm at the bottom of the neck, which was later ground flat.

Comments and Comparanda

A very close parallel was in a private collection (, p. 224, no. 546), dated in the seventh–eighth centuries CE. Various forms bearing mold-blown ribbing have been published from Fustat, Egypt, dated in the eighth–ninth centuries CE (, pp. 70–73, form 35a–p). For a jar with finer mold-blown vertical ribbing dated in the eighth–tenth century, in the Israel Museum, see , p. 353, no. 471.

Provenance

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

Bibliography

Unpublished

Exhibitions

None