Jug with Christian Symbols | Yale University Art Gallery

Late 6th–7th century A.D.

On view, 1st floor, Dura-Europos

Medium: Mold-blown glass, dark brown
Dimensions: h.: 5 9/16 in. (14.2 cm)
h. of body: 2 13/16 in. (7.1 cm)
Credit Line: Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Bequest of Mrs. William H. Moore
Accession Number: 1955.6.152
Culture: Eastern Mediterranean, Palestinian, Jerusalem(?)
Period: Late Roman or Early Byzantine
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Moore Collection no. 784.
Kouchakji Freres 5-10-1923 receipt ("Christian Flask IVth Century).

Bibliography

Richard A. Grossmann, Ancient Glass: A Guide to the Yale Collection (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2002), 23, fig. 23, 23a

Susan B. Matheson and Diana E.E. Kleiner, eds., I, Claudia: Women in Ancient Rome, exh. cat. (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1996), 101, no. 69, ill

Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 129–130, no. 349

Dan Barag, "Glass Pilgrim Vessels from Jerusalem," Journal of Glass Studies 12 (1970), 55, no. 4, Class 1

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. 505, pls. 126–28

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