Conical Roman Glass Flask

Culture: Roman

Period: 3rd-4th century A.D.

Material: Glass

Dimensions: 17.2 cm high

Price: Sold

Ref: 3550

Provenance: Collection Peter Conrads, Germany. Acquired from the Antikenkabinett Gackstätter in the mid-1990s. There registered with the list number 0468. With a copy of the certificate from the Antikenkabinett Gackstätter.

Condition: Intact

Description: Conical flask without a handle of slightly greenish shimmering clear glass. The base is slightly dented. The corpus is bulbous at the bottom and rises straight without a shoulder up. The neck tapering and then merges into a funnel-shaped estuary. The rim is on one side rounded which indicates that one poured on the other side. From Palestine. Inside remains of a reddish-brown encrustation.