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Jar with zigzag handles
Roman or Byzantine, Syro-Palestinian
Late Imperial or Early Byzantine Period
4th–5th century A.D.
Place of Manufacture: Syria
Medium/Technique
Glass, free blown with applied decoration
Dimensions
Height: 7.8 cm (3 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Walter Scott Fitz
Accession Number07.872
CollectionsEurope, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
DescriptionA jar with a flat base and a globular body with indented sides. Blue zigzag applied coil, trailing up and down between the shoulder and rim, and forming an 'openwork cage'. Similar glass jars are attributed to manufacture in late Imperial and early Byzantine Palestine or Syria.
Uncertain color. Intact; areas of iridescence.
Uncertain color. Intact; areas of iridescence.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Mrs. Walter Scott Fitz Collection (according to MFA file card: from Syria); gift of Mrs. Walter Scott Fitz to MFA, December 12, 1907