Seven Roman glass vessels
1st-5th Century A.D.
Including a large and unusual aubergine glass jug, with pinched vertical ribs around the lower body, with trefoil lip and applied double band of trail below, with an applied green glass strap handle, 17.2cm high; a miniature bottle, pinched-in at the base of the neck, 6cm high; an amber glass juglet with trefoil lip, 10.2cm high; three green glass double balsamaria, two with plain bodies, one with applied spiral trailing, 8.4cm - 12.4cm high and a flask of pale amber, the single handle with ribbon-pinched decoration extending down the side of the pear-shaped body, with raised thumb-spur, 13.2cm high (7)
Footnotes:
Provenance:
Property of a private collector, Edinburgh (1938-2021).
The aubergine glass jug acquired from John Cummings Ltd, Grantham, Lincolnshire, 26 May 1994.

The purple ribbed jug with trefoil mouth and applied handle and trailing in contrasting light green glass, is a feature of glass made in Syro-Palestine in the 4th Century AD, although the body of this jug is most unusual for its squat form. For a more slender jug in the Newark Museum of Art, cf Susan Auth, Ancient Glass at the Newark Museum from the Eugene Schaefer Collection of Antiquities, Newark 1976, p.107, no.122, col.pl. on p.183.