Roman Glass Bowl
1st century B.C.
The J. Paul Getty Museum.
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Mold-blown glass flask with janiform decoration
Roman, 1st century A.D.
J. Paul Getty Museum
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This first- or second-century glass statuette of Venus has very thick weathering layers which have been lost in some areas.
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Glass jar with marvered trails Roman, Syro-Palestinian 5th century CE or later (via The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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aryballos, Eastern Mediterranean (possibly Egyptian), c. 6th-4th century BCE, glass
currently in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery, accession no. 1955.6.237
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Glass pomegranate
Greek, 2nd century BC
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I'm always shocked when ancient glass survives.
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Perfume Sprinkler (Qumqum)
11th–mid-13th century
This long-necked glass bottle with a ring-shaped body would have been used for disseminating rosewater or another aromatic substance mixed with water. Rosewater was used for cooking and as a perfume to be sprinkled on guests at the end of a meal. The production of such sprinklers in Syria from the late eleventh to the mid-thirteenth century reflects another aspect of courtly manners in which attractiveness in all its forms was prized.
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museum of ancient glass in zadar
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Roman Glass Bowl
1st half of 1st century CE
Early Imperial, Julio-Claudian
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Glass bottle with handles
Roman, 1st century A.D.
Saint Louis Art Museum
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Glass beaker signed by Jason, Roman, Syro-Palestinian, mid–1st century. Metropolitan Museum, NYC
The inscriptions read "Jason made (me/it)" on one side and "May the buyer be remembered" on the other.
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I’m pretty sure you could buy something more or less identical to this today at any museum gift shop.
[ID: A very modern-looking glass vase, with a cylindrical body ending in a narrower neck; glass handles are attached to the flared mouth of the vase and the “shoulder” of the body, and there is delicate fluting on the body, with a small glass “cord” wrapped around the neck.]
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mosaic bead necklace, glass, eastern Mediterranean (possible Greek or Roman), c. 1st century BCE-1st century CE
currently in the collection of the Getty Museum, accession no. 2003.259
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The sheer amount of concentration and sticktoitiveness involved here is simply astounding.
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