ByzG006
Early Christian light olive green hexagonal glass jug with three crosses.
5th-6th century AD
H. 14.4cm (5 5/8 in.)
Minor strain crack on the shoulder near the handle. Fine iridescence.
Ex. Collection Dr. N. Sad???½???½-Sadowsky, Tel-Aviv. Reputedly found in the Galilee. Acquired 1929-1947.
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The jug with hexagonal mold blown body, flat base, free blown cylindrical neck and trefoil mouth with folded rim. One handle attached from shoulder to rim. Six rectangular facets of body decorated with sank relief showing Christian symbols, framed with depressed dots. The panel decorations show:
1. A cross fourchée with surmounting a globe resting on three steps.
2. A lozenge with smaller central lozenge and depression.
3. A cross on a base resembling a vessel with wide neck and two handles.
4. A lozenge with smaller central lozenge and cross.
5. A cross on a base of two concentric circles.
6. A lozenge with smaller central lozenge and four dots arranged in the form of a cross.
Published in: Barag, D., 1970, class V, no. 6 (p. 56).
And also in: Newby - Moussaieff Collection 2008, p. 80, note 70.
Barag, D., ‘Glass Pilgrim Vessles from Jerusalem – Part 1’, Journal of Glass Studies, vol. XII, Corning, 1970
Newby, Martin S., Byzantine Mould-blown Glass from the Holy Land with Jewish and Christian Symbols, The Shlomo Moussaieff Collection, 2008
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