Artist: Ennion, Syro-Palestinian, 1st century , Globular Bowl, mid-1st century , Mold-blown glass, cm × cm (2 1/8 in. × 3 1/2 in.), Although ancient glassmakers rarely signed their work, Ennion, the most famous of the glassmakers in the Eastern Mediterranean and creator of this delicate jar, signed his name in Greek. The three bands of decorative geometric patterns were created by blowing into a carved clay or wooden mold, a technique Ennion helped pioneer that enabled workshops to produce large numbers of nearly identical vessels., Roman, Eastern Mediterranean, Syrian

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