SKU | SF.276 |
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Circa | 1st Century AD to 2nd Century AD |
Dimensions | 2.75″ (7.0cm) high |
Medium | Glass |
Origin | Eastern Mediterranean |
Gallery Location | UK |
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 cream 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.
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