Jar

Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

2nd-3rd century

Roman; coast of Syria or Palestine

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

Culture: Ancient Mediterranean
Title: Jar
Place: Mediterranean Region (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 101 CE–300 CE
Medium: Glass, blown technique
Dimensions: 8.6 × 8 × 8 cm (3 3/8 × 3 1/8 × 3 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Grace Brown Palmer
Reference Number: 1960.916
IIIF Manifest The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) represents a set of open standards that enables rich access to digital media from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions around the world. Learn more.: https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/12773/manifest.json

Karen B. Alexander, “From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 39.

Grace Brown Palmer (1882-1966), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chucagom 1960.

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