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A work made of glass, mold-blown.

Amphoriskos (Container for Oil)

1st century

Roman, probably Syria

Syria

Shortly after glassblowing was invented in the Eastern Mediterranean in the first century BCE, enterprising
glassmakers created a shaping technique known as moldblowing, in which they inflated a bubble of molten glass within a mold. This process enabled rapid production and promoted the development of new vessel shapes and sizes.

Glass, mold-blown

Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium