Jug with Stylite Saint | Yale University Art Gallery

5th–7th century A.D.

Medium: Mold-blown glass, yellowish brown
Dimensions: 4 3/4 in. (12 cm)
Credit Line: Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Bequest of Mrs. William H. Moore
Accession Number: 1955.6.150
Culture: Eastern Mediterranean, Syrian
Period: Byzantine
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Moore Collection no. 157.

Bibliography

Martine Newby and Shlomo Moussaieff, Byzantine Mould-blown Glass from the Holy Land with Jewish and Christian Symbols (London: Shlomo Moussaieff, 2008),

Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 133, no. 354, ill

Dorothy E. Miner, ed., Early Christian and Byzantine Art: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, April 25–June 22, exh. cat. (Baltimore: The Walters Art Museum, 1947), 123, no. 620

Gustavus A. Eisen, Glass: Its Origin, History, Chronology, Technic and Classification to the Sixteenth Century, 2 vols. (New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1927), vol. 2, p. 484, fig. 201

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Object/Work type

jugs

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