79. Roman square-sided jug, Black Sea region, 1st-2nd century AD
Glass
Height: 23.5cm
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Mould-blown in translucent, green-blue glass. The straight-sided jug has a ribbed strap handle drawn from the flat shoulder and attached to the top of the cylindrical neck, the lip out-turned,...
Mould-blown in translucent, green-blue
glass. The straight-sided jug has a ribbed
strap handle drawn from the flat shoulder
and attached to the top of the cylindrical
neck, the lip out-turned, folded inwards
and flattened, the underside with a motif
composed of mirrored semi-circular lines
within a circle. Intact.
Provenance
Art market, Beirut, LebanonFarouk Bey Abassy, UK; acquired from the above in the 1960s, thence by descent
