flask
Object NameLentoid Flask
Made FromGlass
Dateabout 1290-1085 BCE
Place MadeEgypt; possibly Eastern Mediterranean
Techniquecore-formed, tooled, trail decorated
SizeOverall H: 5.7 cm, W: 4.7 cm, D: 4.1 cm
Accession Number58.1.25
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionOpaque medium turquoise glass, bubbly with white and black and yellow stone, some surface devitrification, trails of opaque yellow and white glass; core-formed, tooled and trail decorated. Rim and part of cylindrical neck lost, section preserves alternating white and yellow marvered in trails dragged up to the rim nine times; at the base of the neck is a yellow trail left in relief; the body spreads out to form a thick lentoid shape with a central register defined by two yellow trails, the upper one left in relief, the lower one is marvered in; the register is filled with eight to nine alternating trails of white and yellow glass dragged alternately up and down twenty-two times to form a feathered or festooned pattern; two scars on shoulder above yellow trail suggest strap handles pulled up to neck.Provenance
Source
Leopold Blumka
(-1973) - 1958-06-05
