Bottle | Yale University Art Gallery

2nd–3rd century A.D.

Not on view

Medium: Free-blown glass, colorless
Dimensions: 9 1/8 × 7 1/2 in. (23.1 × 19 cm)
Credit Line: Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos
Accession Number: 1929.422
Geography: Excavated in Dura-Europos, Syria
Culture: Syrian, Dura-Europos
Period: Roman
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Excavated by the Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos (Palmyrene Gate), present-day Syria, 1928–37; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Roman in the Provinces: Art on the Periphery of Empire (Chestnut Hill, Mass.: McMullen Museum of Art, 2014), 291, no. 101, pl. 101

Professor Christoph W. Clairmont, The Excavations at Dura-Europos, ed. Ann Perkins (New Haven, Conn: Dura-Europos Publications, 1963), 140, no. 736, pl. 36

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