Jar
MS4931
Location: On Display in the Rome Gallery
From: Israel | Palestine | Galilee
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4931 |
| Current Location | Rome Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Roman |
| Provenience | Israel | Palestine | Galilee |
| Period | Late Roman Period |
| Date Made | 300-399 CE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Glass |
| Technique | Blown | Threading |
| Description | Intact. Rounded body on a flat bottom; continous curve to neck and slightly thickened lip. Irregular zig-zag ornament of heavy threaded glass from shoulder to lip. Body of piece and thread of translucent green glass. Part of thread decoration also has white glass thread marvered into it. Free-Blown jar with looped zig-zag thread rim decoration; 2 handles. |
| Height | 9.2 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Fr. Vester and Company, American Colony Store, Jerusalem, 1913 |
| Other Number | GL24 (ancient glass project) - Other Number | 2540 - Other Number |
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