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Roman Glass Date-Shaped Flask - GF.336
Origin: Eastern Mediterranean
Circa: 1
st
Century AD
to 2
nd
Century AD
Dimensions:
2,5" (114203.5cm) high
Collection: Classical
Medium: Glass
Condition: Intact
£3,600.00
Location: Great Britain
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| Description |
The wrinkled surface and the colour
of this vessel combine to give a
naturalistic representation of a dried
date. Small mould-blown flasks of
this type were common in the first
and second centuries A.D and have
been found across the Roman
Empire.
This vessel would have been blown
into a two- part mould of two
vertical sections, it is of a brown
colour, the rim is rounded, the neck
is short. The relief patterns consist of
short wavy ridges imitating the
wrinkles of the skin of a ripe date.
Flasks of this kind would have been
probably made to store perfume
- (GF.336)
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