Acquisition number: 1977.03
Intact and in good condition but for some clouding of the surface. Thin and finely made. The glass is a yellow-green colour. It has a rolled rim, funnel mouth with a crease in one side, and a concave base.
Title: Flask - 1977.03
Acquisition number: 1977.03
Culture or period: Roman Imperial
Date: c. 3rd - 4th century AD.
Material: Glass
Object type: Vessels - Flask
Dimensions: 128mm (w) Ă— 194mm (h)
Origin region or location: France
Display case or on loan: 9
Keywords: Roman, Imperial, Gaul, Glass
Charles Ede Ltd (London), Roman Glass (September 1977) no. 11 (ill.); J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 114.
1977.03
Flask
Purchased. Ht 19.4cm; diam. 12.8cm.
Intact and in good condition but for some clouding of the surface. Thin and finely made. The glass is a yellow-green colour. It has a rolled rim, funnel mouth with a crease in one side, and a concave base.
The form is characteristic of later Roman work and it occurs particularly often in Gaul in the third–fourth centuries AD: see for instance Morin-Jean, La verrerie en Gaule (Paris 1923) 92-93, Form 40, who notes its popularity in the valleys of the Moselle and the Rhine; also Vessberg, Opuscula Archaeologica, Skrifter utgivna av Svenska Institutet i Rom 7, 1952, 131, 133, and pl. 7, 13-15. The type is Isings, Roman Glass from Dated Finds 122-124, Form 104b. For the shape in general, see also D. Whitehouse, Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, i (Corning NY, 1997) nos 279-280, comparing too the example from Israel, no. 312.
Charles Ede Ltd (London), Roman Glass (September 1977) no. 11 (ill.); J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 114.