A Roman amber glass date flask
Circa 1st-early 2nd Century A.D.
7.2cm highFootnotesProvenance:
with Numisart GmbH, Vienna.
Property from a Princely Collection, acquired from the above 20 June 2007.
Dates were used both in cooking and as a medicinal ingredient. Such bottles may have held scented oils or medicines; alternatively, they may also have served as funerary offerings, symbolising sweetness. For similar examples see E. Marianne Stern, The Toledo Museum of Art, Roman Mold-blown Glass, the First through Sixth Centuries, Toledo, 1995, pp. 173-179, nos. 84-107.
A Roman amber glass date flask
Circa 1st-early 2nd Century A.D.
7.2cm highFootnotesProvenance:
with Numisart GmbH, Vienna.
Property from a Princely Collection, acquired from the above 20 June 2007.
Dates were used both in cooking and as a medicinal ingredient. Such bottles may have held scented oils or medicines; alternatively, they may also have served as funerary offerings, symbolising sweetness. For similar examples see E. Marianne Stern, The Toledo Museum of Art, Roman Mold-blown Glass, the First through Sixth Centuries, Toledo, 1995, pp. 173-179, nos. 84-107.
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