Glass jar with marvered trails

Roman, Syro-Palestinian

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Translucent purple; trails in opaque brownish red and white.

Thick, outsplayed rim, with slightly beveled edge; funnel-shaped neck; pushed-in shoulder; globular body; kick in bottom, with traces of pontil pad.

Two marvered trails wound in a spiral from rim to bottom; on body and neck, tooled into hanging festoons with seventeen upward tooling strokes; around bottom, tooled downward, forming a very confused pattern.

Intact; pinprick bubbles on surface; thick creamy brown weathering and iridescence covering most of body with areas of pitting and dulling on exterior.

Glass jar with marvered trails, Glass, Roman, Syro-Palestinian

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