A LATE ROMAN OR BYZANTINE PALE GREEN GLASS AMPHORA

EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, CIRCA 5TH CENTURY A.D.

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A LATE ROMAN OR BYZANTINE PALE GREEN GLASS AMPHORA
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, CIRCA 5TH CENTURY A.D.
The piriform body on disc foot, long neck and everted rim, with applied turquoise glass zigzag trails down sides of body, twin looped handles, collar around neck and trail under rim, with iridescence
7 7/8 in. (20 cm.) high

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Private collection, Vienna, 1985.

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This type of footed amphora is well recorded from 5th century A.D. sites along the Syro-Palestine coast. For a discussion on an example formerly in the Ernesto Wolf Collection with further parallels, cf. E.M. Stern, Roman, Byzantine and Early Medieval Glass 10 BCE-700 CE. Ernesto Wolf Collection, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2001, p. 307, no. 170.