Flask

Flask
 3rd century CE-4th century CE

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium
glass
Measurements
11.4 × 7.9 cm diameter
Place/s of Execution
Eastern Mediterranean
Accession Number
D22-1971
Department
Antiquities
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of the Australian Institute of Archaeology, 1967
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Not on display
Physical description
Brownish-yellow flask with a short funnel rim and lip pointed upwards and inwards and flattened by pressure to an inward bevel on the top, a cylindrical neck and a globular body with a concave base. The vessel is blown but no pontil mark.

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