A Roman green glass jar with a wide everted rim, and standing on a flattened base, indented towards the centre. The jar is decorated below the rim with an applied zig-zag trail, below which are seven pinched projections. Areas of green weathering and iridescence.
Circa 4th Century AD.
Condition: Very Fine, complete and intact, the glass a little weathered and bubbly, small stree crack (stable) to rim.
Width 7.5 cms (3 ins)
For similar, see item 321; Ancient Glass in the National Museums Scotland; C. S. Lightfoot.
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SKU: K422
£425.00Price
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