Pomegranate Glass Flask

Glass flask in the form of a pomegranate.

Clear wine-coloured (?) with opaque white and opaque orange trails.

Splayed rim formed by six triangular, pointed calyx-tips, bent outwards; cylindrical neck joining shoulder in curve; almost spherical body with rounded bottom.

On body two groups of opaque combed trails: (a) on upper half, three trails, orange, white, and orange, combed into upright festoons; (b) on lower half, three trails, white, orange, and white, combed into inverted festoons.

Core-formed and tooled, trails marvered and combed.

Dimensions: Diameter: 7.50 centimetres; Height: 8.60 centimetres max

Object Type: flask

Techniques: core-formed; trailed

Condition: Broken and mended; only two fragmentary calyx-tips extant. Glass of body and of trails completely decomposed, body to cream colour, trails to grey and brown respectively.

Late Bronze Age III

1897,0401.1218