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Glass
Hexagonal Jar
Syro-Palestinian artist, (active )
Syro-Palestinian artist
Syria or Palestine
Primary
3 1/8 x 2 3/4 x 2 7/16 in. (7.9 x 7 x 6.2 cm)
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Glass
Glass
6th Century - 7th Century
500
699
500-1000, ancient art (Mediterranean & Near East), from Rochester collections, glass, jars
Glass
Although glass had been produced for millennia in Egypt and the Middle East, the industry developed rapidly during Republican and Imperial Rome. Skilled craftsmen set up workshops throughout the Empire, where they created mass-produced wares for myriad peoples and uses. This small jar, decorated with a menorah and probably used by Jewish pilgrims visiting holy sites in Jerusalem, was created long after the decline of Rome, though using the same advanced techniques developed under skilled Roman glassmakers.
[Gallery label text, 2009]
1928.20
item
Memorial Art Gallery
3/10/2001
negative
4 x 5
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glossy
7 x 8.75
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28.20DI1
digital image
Memorial Art Gallery
Imaging Complete
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28.20DI2
digital image
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28.20DI#2
digital image
Side
11/6/2007
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28.20DI#2
digital image
Side
11/6/2007
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