Animal Shaped Flask
Animal Shaped Flask
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean
Date6th-8th century
DimensionsH: 4 in. (10.2 cm); L: 4 in. (10.2 cm) (surviving)
MediumGlass; free blown, tooled, applied decoration
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.2046
Not on View
DescriptionColorless body; applied greenish-blue and colorless decoration; shape of a dromedary with greenish-blue ears and tail, and missing legs; colorless bottle on back of dromedary with greenish-blue thread at neck; bottle surrounded by net decoration, colorless at top, greenish-blue at bottom; applied crimped greenish-blue thread at top of net decoration.
5th-6th century
5th-6th century
5th-6th century
Possibly 7th-8th century
4th-6th century CE
Late fourth to early fifth century
7th-10th century
3rd-6th century
4th century CE
9th-11th century CE (?)
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