Site : Dibba Al-Hisn - Sharjah
Period : Pre-Islamic
Material : Glass
Height : 8.1 cm
Diameter : 4.5 cm
Small Roman glass bottle from the site of Dibba al-Hisn, in Sharjah, United Arab EmiratesThe bottle was found in a Roman-Parthian period tomb dating to the 1st C CE. Pre-Islamic in the regional chronology.
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