1978.495.2: Flask with Constricted Body
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1978.495.2
- Title
- Flask with Constricted Body
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 5th-7th century CE
- Places
- Creation Place: Middle East, Türkiye (Turkey)
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/77929
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Light blue glass
- Technique
- Free-blown glass
- Dimensions
- 18.7 x 7.4 cm (7 3/8 x 2 15/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University (by 1926-1978), transfer; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1978.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
- Accession Year
- 1978
- Object Number
- 1978.495.2
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Bottle; indented base, elaborate body that flares and tapers repeatedly, flaring mouth, ribbed neck. Intact, repaired neck and mouth, lots of blue powder adhering to interior, dirt accretions on base. This object may not be ancient.
Subjects and Contexts
- Roman Domestic Art
Verification Level
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