Bottle with internal tooling
Bottle with internal tooling
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean
Date5th century CE
DimensionsH: 18.5 cm (7 3/16 in.); Diam (rim): 1 in. (2.6 cm); Diam (body): 3 1/8 in. (7.8 cm)
MediumPale blue-green glass; blown, trail-decorated, and tooled
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1239
Not on View
DescriptionThin glass. Vertically elongated bubbles in neck. Fabric of body cannot be determined because of weathering.
Transparent natural pale green (10 G 6/7). Similarly colored thread.
Free-blown. No pontil mark. Added thread. Internal threads created by poking in lower wall of partially inflated vessel until the glass from the lower body touched the upper wall, then, as inflation enlarged vessel body, the poked-in glass lengthened to become a narrow hollow thread.
Rim rounded in flame. Tubular neck tapering downward with constriction at its base. Gently sloping shoulder. Bulbous body with greatest diameter below shoulder. Concave base.
Around neck, 18 revolutions of thread trailed on downward from right to left. On body, 11 horizontally pinched warts at junction of shoulder and body. Four internal threads from just above base to just below neck.
CLASSIFICATION Bulbous Bottle I A 1 a
Published ReferencesLees-Causey, Catherine, "Some Roman Glass in the J. Paul Getty Museum," The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, vol. II, 1983, p. 154.5th Century
Late 4th-5th century CE
3rd-4th century CE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
Probably late fifth to early sixth century
about 3rd-4th century CE
Sixth century
New Kingdom, Eighteenth Dynasty, about 1412-1350 BCE
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