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Ancient Art
Public domain

Jar

late 3rd–4th century A.D.

Free-blown glass, pale bluish green

H: 7.0 cm.
Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Bequest of Mrs. William H. Moore
1955.6.254
Status: 
Not on view
Culture: 
Roman, Eastern Mediterranean, Syrian
Period: 
Roman-Byzantine
Classification: 
Containers - Glass
Provenance: 

said to be from Syria

Bibliography: 

Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 101, no. 273, ill.

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