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418. Flask

Accession Number 79.AF.184.24
Dimensions H. 5.2, Diam. rim 1.6, Diam. base 2.2 × 2.3 cm; Wt. 181.80 g
Date Ninth–tenth centuries CE
Production Area Eastern Mediterranean
Material Translucent dark green glass
Modeling Technique and Decoration Free-blown and ground
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Condition

Mended: adhesive join at neck; resin/adhesive embedded with chunks of weathering from glass cover on the neck. The neck and body are likely from different objects. Iridescence on the exterior, incrustation on the interior.

Description

Flat, cut-off rim; short, wide, cylindrical neck, wider toward the body; sloping shoulder with an overblow visible on two of the sides; prismatic body, almost square in cross section, with cut edges, which turn it into an octagon. The body walls taper toward the flat bottom. At the center of the bottom, the circular scar of a solid pontil (W. 1.2 cm) is visible.

Comments and Comparanda

See comments for cat. 390. In addition, for similar prismatic flasks, cf. , pp. 73–74, nos. 727 and 728.

Provenance

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

Bibliography

Unpublished

Exhibitions

None