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Ancient Art
Bottle
5th–6th century A.D.
Free-blown glass, pale bluish green
11.4 × 15.2 cm (4 1/2 × 6 in.)
diameter of rim: 3 cm (1 3/16 in.)
The Yale-British School Excavations at Gerasa
1929.729
Geography:
Excavated in Gerasa, Jordan
Status:
On view
Culture:
Gerasa (Jordan), Late Roman-Early Byzantine
Period:
Late Roman-Early Byzantine
Classification:
Containers - Glass
Provenance:
Excavated by the Yale-British School Excavations at Gerasa (Church of St. Theodore), present-day Jordan, 1928–34; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography:
Professor Paul V. C. Baur, Gerasa: City of the Decapolis, ed. Carl H. Kraeling (New Haven, Conn.: American Schools of Oriental Research, 1938), 540, no. 12, 86 (423), pl. 150, a.
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.
