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Ancient Art
Flask
5th–6th century A.D.
Free-blown glass with trailed handles, yellow
15.7 × 5.7 cm (6 3/16 × 2 1/4 in.)
Bequest of Florence Baiz Van Volkenburgh in memory of her husband, Thomas Sedgwick Van Volkenburgh, B.A. 1866
1940.289
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
Roman, Eastern Mediterranean, Syrian(?)
Classification:
Containers - Glass
Bibliography:
Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 127–8, no. 343, ill.
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