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413. Flask

Accession Number 79.AF.184.46
Dimensions H. 6.9, Diam. rim 1.7, Diam. base 2.1 × 2.1 cm; Wt. 27.96 g
Date Ninth–tenth centuries CE
Production Area Eastern Mediterranean
Material Colorless (neck) and colorless, slightly greenish glass (body)
Modeling Technique and Decoration Free-blown
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Condition

Mended.

Description

Ground rim; cylindrical neck, tapering toward the body; sloping shoulders; four-sided body, square in cross section, curving in toward the flat bottom. No pontil mark visible. Two rows of four pairs of oblique cut strokes on the neck, pointing downward.

Comments and Comparanda

On vessels with square or polygonal body, see comments for cat. 390. On wheel-cut decoration on Islamic flasks, see comments for cat. 380.

Provenance

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

Bibliography

Unpublished

Exhibitions

None