Collection of the University of Pittsburgh Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1988.05.006

Glass Vase, Roman

???? CE – 99 BCE (Date created)
Glass
Blown glass
Vases
3.25 in H (Object)
Notes: 2.5 inches at the lip and 5.75 inches at the neck
8.25 cm H (Object)
Roman;Syrian
Bottle has low/squat globualr body, flat-based with a strongly flared neck/rim. Lip is pronounced/everted. No decorations are present. Has rose hue beneath the bettina.
Much of the ancient glass of Syrian and Persian origin is at times classified as Roman because Rome controlled these areas during the reign of Julius Caesar. Roman efforts at blowing glass resulted in bottles or flasks of simple shapes with a fre-blown bulbous body, a longish cylindrical neck and a projecting rim. Mostly all were made without handles. So-called tear bottles, small club-formed vials, were supposedly receptacles for the tears of mourners and are common funerary finds
- exhibition label from Marjory Pikunas
In Collection
Bought from R. H. Macy on June 29 1931
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