Inscribed Bottle with Dionysos and Mythological Figures

Early 3rd century A.D.

Medium: Mold-blown glass, pale bluish green
Dimensions: 8 1/4 × 3 3/4 in. (20.9 × 9.5 cm)
Diameter of Foot: 2 5/16 in. (5.9 cm)
Credit Line: Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Bequest of Mrs. William H. Moore
Accession Number: 1955.6.51
Culture: Roman, Eastern Mediterranean
Period: Roman
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

said to have been found in Syria, near Aleppo; Kouchakji Freres, 1919.
Described in 2-13-1919 Freres receipt.

Bibliography

David Whitehouse, Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, 2 (Corning, NY: Corning Museum of Glass, 2001), 58–59

David Whitehouse, Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, 1 (Corning, NY: Corning Museum of Glass, 1997),

Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 105–07, no. 280, ill

Gustavus A. Eisen, Glass: Its Origin, History, Chronology, Technic and Classification to the Sixteenth Century, 2 vols. (New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1927), vol. 1, p. 232, pls. 46–47

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