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424. Flask

Accession Number 79.AF.184.6
Dimensions H. 4.9, Diam. rim 1.9, Diam. body 2.5, Th. 0.4 cm; Wt. 20.22 g
Date Ninth–eleventh centuries CE
Production Area Eastern Mediterranean
Material Translucent emerald green glass
Modeling Technique and Decoration Free-blown
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Condition

Thick, sturdy vessel. Neck is mended and probably belongs to a different vessel. Exterior partly iridescent; interior covered with incrustation.

Description

Cut-off, vertical rim; conical neck; sloping shoulder. The body is everted and conical, standing on a slightly concave bottom. At the center of the bottom is the circular mark of a solid pontil (W. 1 cm). At mid-height on the body is a faint tooling mark.

Comments and Comparanda

For the body, parallels include , plate 3:36; , p. 42, form 17e. Also, for decorated flasks of closely similar shape, see parallels of cat. 423.

Provenance

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

Bibliography

Unpublished

Exhibitions

None