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Ancient Art
Public domain

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.

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