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Fragment of a Bottle

Object Name:: Fragment
Date:: 8th–9th century
Geography:: Iraq, Ctesiphon
Medium:: Glass; mold blown; tooled on the pontil
Dimensions:: H. 2 7/8 (7.3 cm) W. 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)
Classification:: Glass
Credit Line:: Rogers Fund, 1932
Accession Number:: 32.150.249

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Provenance

Excavated at West Mound, bath of Palace Taq-i Kisra in Ctesiphon, Iraq, by the Joint Expedition of the Staatlichen Museen of Berlin and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1931–32. Acquired by the Museum in the division of finds and accessioned, 1932
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Glass (16,083)

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A.D. 500-1000 (6,678)
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Iraq (Mesopotamia) 500–1000 A.D.
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