Spherical Flask with Funnel Mouth

Culture: Roman

Period: 1st half 4th century A.D.

Material: Glass

Dimensions: 11.8 cm high

Price: Sold

Ref: 3542

Provenance: Collection Peter Conrads, Germany. Acquired from the Antikenkabinett Gackstätter mid-1990s.

Condition: Intact

Description: Spherical flask of almost completely decolorized, only slightly greenish shimmering clear glass. The neck is cylindrical with an estuary. The rim is rounded and thickened. On the corpus ten vertically running ribs are pinched out from the wall in different sizes and different intervals. The base is slightly dented. From Palestine. See for the type: “Römisches, byzantinisches und frühmittelalterliches Glas – Sammlung Ernesto Wolf”, Hatje Cantz 2001, numbers 104 and 105.