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Ancient Art
Explore image in Bottle
2nd–3rd century A.D.
Free-blown glass, colorless
23.1 × 19 cm (9 1/8 × 7 1/2 in.)
Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos
1929.422
Geography:
Excavated in Dura-Europos, Syria
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
Syrian, Dura-Europos
Period:
Roman
Classification:
Containers - Glass
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:
Professor Christoph W. Clairmont, The Excavations at Dura-Europos, ed. Ann Perkins (New Haven, Conn: Dura-Europos Publications, 1963), 140, no. 736, pl. 36.
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.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
