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Translucent pale yellow green.
Fine horizontal rim, folded over and in; broad flaring mouth; conical body with slight convex profile, then turned in at acute angle to flat but slightly uneven bottom.
Complete but one large crack running from rim down side; pinprick bubbles and blowing striations; faint iridescence on exterior, soil encrustation and thick silvery iridescent weathering on interior.
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Title: Glass jar
Period: Mid Imperial
Date: 2nd–3rd century CE
Culture: Roman
Medium: Glass; blown
Dimensions: H.: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm)
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Accession Number: 17.194.78
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