Hexagonal Flask with Jewish Symbols | Yale University Art Gallery

6th–7th century A.D.

On view, 1st floor, Dura-Europos

Medium: Mold-blown glass, brown
Dimensions: 3 1/8 × 2 3/16 × 2 11/16 in. (7.9 × 5.6 × 6.8 cm)
Credit Line: The Anna Rosalie Mansfield Collection
Accession Number: 1930.439
Culture: Eastern Mediterranean, Palestinian, possibly Jerusalem
Period: Late Roman or Early Byzantine
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

said to have come from Beit Shean, Palestine; Khayat, 1902.

Bibliography

Richard A. Grossmann, Ancient Glass: A Guide to the Yale Collection (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2002), 23, Center, fig. 23, 23b

Susan B. Matheson and Diana E.E. Kleiner, I Claudia Women in Ancient Rome, exh. cat. (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1996), 101, no. 68, ill

Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 131, no. 350, ill

Dan Barag, "Glass Pilgrim Vessels from Jerusalem," Journal of Glass Studies 12 (1970), 57

Professor Paul V. C. Baur, Gerasa, City of the Decapolis, ed. Carl H. Kraeling (New Haven, Conn.: American Schools of Oriental Research, 1938), 544, no. 101, fig. 141, a.

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Additional information

Object/Work type

flasks (bottles)

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