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Roman glass sprinkler flask

Free-blown sprinkler flask of transparent green glass. The body and neck created separately, the rim finished after transfer from the blowpipe to the pointil. Ten vertical ribs formed by successive pinching of the gather atop the realized shape.

 

Roman

Eastern Mediterranean

3rd-4th century CE

 

Getty Villa Museum, Malibu (2004.42)

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Uploaded on March 31, 2024
Taken on March 13, 2024