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Hexagonal Flask with Jewish Symbols
6th–7th century A.D.
Mold-blown glass, brown
7.94 × 5.59 × 6.76 cm (3 1/8 × 2 3/16 × 2 11/16 in.)
The Anna Rosalie Mansfield Collection
1930.439
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
Eastern Mediterranean, Palestinian, possibly Jerusalem
Period:
Late Roman or Early Byzantine
Classification:
Containers - Glass
Provenance:
said to have come from Beit Shean, Palestine; Khayat, 1902.
Bibliography:
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.
Dan Barag, “Glass Pilgrim Vessels from Jerusalem,” Journal of Glass Studies 12 (1970): 57.
Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 131, no. 350, ill.
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.
Richard A. Grossmann, Ancient Glass: A Guide to the Yale Collection (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2002), 23, Center, fig. 23, 23b.
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.
