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Mdina Mystery object, could it be a jar lid or a paperweight or just a 'thing' ?

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jonchellycain:
Hi all
picked this up a while back and have been meaning to get your opinions, so whilst ive been photographing my Mdina collection thought i would try and ID this one
There is 8 pictures from 50 to 58 https://picasaweb.google.com/112538457954992188877/Mdina#5582088297832124914
Height 9.75cm widest Diameter 9cm, opening 4.75cm, rim 6cm, clear noble 3cm in diameter.
Now im not even sure which way is up, but it has wear on the opening end around the base (the first picture way up), But the clear noble has a cut and well polished 'end'.
There is no wear anywhere else to suggest it has been a lid, plus its rounded so wouldnt have sat very well on somehing else
Is it off of a bigger piece maybe a jar of some sort, or has it been cut down from being something else or was it just made like this.
No makers marks on it, but im sure its Mdina
many thanks
michelle
Here is the link to my whole Mdina album on picasa
https://picasaweb.google.com/112538457954992188877/Mdina#

glassobsessed:
Very :huh:

I am intrigued, it does look like a bit like a lid though. Something non standard made by the Boffos to sell in Valetta?

John

jonchellycain:
very odd this one ah John. I wonderd if it was a drinking glass and the foot had been damaged so someone ground and polished the end? but its quite thick and wouldnt be easy to drink out of (although thats not evidence that its not what it was designed as)
cheers
michelle

chopin-liszt:
The rim is too broad to fit into one of the massive "sweetie jar" (as I call them) stoppered bottles - (I just climbed up and checked) - so it's not a stopper for one of them.

It's weird that the knobble is polished flat, while at the other end, the rim is heat-finished.

It does look like Mdina - but also like some early Phoenician which I often confuse with some Mdina.
I've ever seen anything this shape before.

It might fit onto the top of one of the egg-shaped 7-8" tall Mdina vases.

It doesn't look like a convenient shape to drink from - stuff would get left behind.

Intriguing!

ahremck:
My thought is that it is related to "amphora" shaped vases which can not stand by themselves but are supported by a metal loop of some sort. 

Thus the ground bit becomes the base and being heavy will be quite stable and the open end is where the "flowers/trinkets/??? go.

Ross

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