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Object NameHexagonal Mold-Blown Bottle with Vessels

Made FromGlass

Date1-99

TechniqueMold-blown, reworked

SizeOverall H: 8.3 cm, Diam (max): 3.8 cm

Accession Number55.1.74

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Exhibitions

Verres Antiques de la Collection R.W. Smith

Glass from the Ancient World

Ennion and His Legacy: Mold-Blown Glass From Ancient Rome

Dig Deeper: Discovering an Ancient Glass Workshop

Treasures in Glass

Place Made

probably Ancient Syro-Palestine (Syria, Lebanon, or Israel)

Physical DescriptionHexagonal Mold-Blown Bottle with Vessels. Transparent light blue glass; mold-blown, multi-part mold; rim reworked. Bottle with cylindrical neck and slightly constricted, six-sided body, which bulges and curves inward to bottom; rim everted, then folded upward and inward; sloping shoulder; flat base. Decorated in relief; on shoulder, six trapezoidal panels each containing semi-circular area with triangular boss at center; on body, six rectangular panels containing drinking vessels and accessories: (1) ladle, (2) chalice, (d) oenochoe, (4) patella, (5) cantharus, (6) skyphos; on lower part of body, fluting; on base, three concentric circles around central depression.

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