A fine specimen of the oldest method of making small glass containers, which were used to transport and store precious fluids such as perfumes and oils. Glass produced by this method, which remained in use until the first century of our era, is called core-formed glass. This method, which consists of circling coils of hot glass around a core, may have been developed in Syria.
Provenance: unknown.
Material: glass
Height: 10 cm.
Era: 8th to 5th century BC.
Photo credit: Nicholas Randall.
Text: adapted from Michel Fortin (p. 203).
Collection: National Museum of Damascus.
Highlights of the National Museum of Damascus. DGAM (Direction Générale des Antiquités et des Musées de Syrie). Ministère de la Culture, 2006.
Michel Fortin, Syria, Land of Civilization. Les Éditions de l'Homme, Musée de la Civilisation de Québec 1999.
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