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Flask

Flask
 3rd century CE-4th century CE

Medium
glass
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of the Australian Institute of Archaeology, 1967
Reproduction requests
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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