Circa 300-400 AD A beautiful example of a Roman glass double balsamarium, made from a semi-translucent green glass. Extremely aesthetically pleasing to the eye. The body widens at the base and at the mouths and is decorated with applied spiral trails in a blue-green colouring. The balsamarium is a form of the Roman glass unguentarium. For similar see: Roman Glass in the Corning Museum Volume 1-3. Ancient and Islamic Glass in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, p. 115. Brill, R.H., 1967: "A Great Glass Slab from Ancient Galilee," Archaeology. Charleston, R.J., 1978: "Glass Furnaces through the Ages," Journal of Glass Studies 20. Fleming, S.J., 1999: Roman Glass: Reflections on Cultural Change, Appendix A (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum). Grose, D.F., 1989: Early Ancient Glass, various sections (New York: Hudson Hills). Mazor, G., and Bar-Nathan, R., 1998: "The Bet She'an Excavation Project 1992-1994," Excavations and Surveys in Israel 17, 5-38. Stern, E.M. and Schlick-Nolte, B., 1994: Early Glass of the Ancient World, 72-79 (Ostfildern: Verlag Gerd Hatje). Weinberg, G.D., 1988: Excavations at Jalome, 38-102 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press). Size: Set of 2: L:108 - 114mm / W:5 - 47mm; 72g Provenance: Private London collection; acquired in the 1990s on the UK art market.