Carafe Drinking Glass

Carafe Drinking Glass

Glass

Large tall necked flask/carafe. Thin transparent green tinged (colourless) glass. Narrow flared conical mouth. Trailed ring applied immediately below the mouth. Cylindrical neck with slight swelling toward base and prominent pinch mark at junction with broad apple shaped spherical body; slightly concave bottom. The neck is attached slightly off centre. Small but sparse air bubbles within bowl and sparse elongated bubbling following the line of the neck with tiny bubbles becoming more prominent within circumference of rim. Occasional tiny flaws on bowl; superficial burst bubble flaw on the lower bowl shoulder.

Roman, from Syria

Gift of Dr J Tranberg, Hill End, 1991

AD 200 - 300

91.037

Gift of Dr J Tranberg, Hill End, 1991.
Acquired by Dr J Tranberg, Hill End, from Antiquities and Ethnographica Society, Adelaide, after 1974.