Glass amphoriskos (perfume flask) with band of lozenges

Roman, Syro-Palestinian

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent brownish yellow; handles in cobalt blue.
Everted rim, rounded in flame; flaring mouth; cylindrical neck; globular body; slightly oval base, with flat bottom; two rod handles attached in a large pad to shoulder, drawn up, turned in, and pressed onto neck. One continuous mold seam around body and across bottom, extending to base of neck and forming raised line across bottom with a small knob at the center.
On body, frieze of sixteen downturned raised tongues on upper body and twenty-one upturned rounded tongues on lower body, joined by a central band of twelve contiguous X-shaped lozenges bordered above and below by two horizontal raised lines.
Broken and cracked with one large hole in side; few bubbles; faint iridescence, small patches of creamy white weathering, and some soil encrustation on interior.

Yellow molded Sidonian jug with two handles.

Glass amphoriskos (perfume flask) with band of lozenges, Glass, Roman, Syro-Palestinian

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