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Grey Glass Bottle - GF.0105
Origin: Jericho, Israel
Circa: 700
BC
to 850
AD
Dimensions:
3.5" (8.9cm) high
Catalogue: V1
Collection: Near Eastern
Medium: Glass
£4,000.00
Location: Great Britain
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Surely this lovely bottle--decorated
with
abstract flowers--must once itself have
held
perfume from are blossoms. The scent of
those
ancient blooms has faded, along with the
world
that created this exquisite treasure,
but if we
hold the bottle to our nose and let our
mind
float free, we are transported into a
past whose
beauty is unfaded and eternal.
0105: Bottle, free-blown brownish glass
with
trailed
decoration. The spherical body has a
short
cylndrical
neck which terminates in a bulge and
rests on an
attached ring with deeply sunken base.
The body
has several trailed designs and flat
relief discs and
a
horizontal trailed band around the base
of the
shoulder.
Syria or Palestine, 7th – 8th century.
Ht. 8.9cm; Top diam. 1.6cm; Base diam.
3.1cm.
Comparative material: Carboni,
cat.no.5a, inv.no.
LNS 39 KG, pp.26-27, cat.no.1.4b,
inv.no. LNS 63
KG, pp.38-39; Israeli, cat.nos. 434 –
435, p.335.
Prof.Geza Ferhavari
Prof. Geoffrey King
- (GF.0105)
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