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© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
Flask
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
ClassificationsAncient Near Eastern Art

Flask

AAT Object Techniqueblown glass
AAT Object Form/Functionflasks (bottles)
Place CreatedAsia
CultureIslamic
Date8th-12th Century CE
MediumGlass
Credit LineGift of John and Maidie Franklin Opladen
Dimensions7 15/16 x 4 1/8 in. (20.2 x 10.4 cm)
Object number1982.001.020
Exhibition HistoryAcross the Millennia: Antiques from the Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, Southern Bell Center, Atlanta, Georgia, January 6 - February 29, 1988
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - Spring 2001
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2001 - February 12, 2018
ProvenanceEx coll. John Opladen, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, purchased in Syria or Lebanon. On loan to the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, until 1982.
Status
Not on view
Collections
  • Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
early 4th Century CE
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
3rd-early 4th Century CE
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
late 1st-early 2nd Century CE
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
2nd-3rd Century CE
Courtesy of the Georges Ricard Foundation and the California Institute of World Archaeology
3rd-4th Century CE
Courtesy of the Georges Ricard Foundation and the California Institute of World Archaeology
late 3rd-mid 4th Century CE
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
ca. 3rd Century CE