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Date-shaped Bottle
Date: Mid-1st to early 2nd century
Dimensions:
H: 4 7/16 in. (11.3 cm); Body H: 2 3/8 in. (6 cm); Max Diam: 1 5/16 in. (3.26 cm); Rim Diam: 3/4 in. (1.97 cm)
Medium: Glass
Place of Origin: Ancient Rome, probably Phoenican
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1923.595
DescriptionTranslucent grayish-green (near 10 GY 5/2).
Medium thin glass. Small bubbles, vertically elongated in neck, spherical in body.
Rim tooled. Body blown into a two-part mold of two vertical sections. One continuous mold seam around body (MCT VIII).
Everted rim, folded inward and downward. Very tall (about half of total height) cylindrical neck. Body shaped like a date with a nearly circular cross section.
Relief pattern of knobs and short straight ridges, imitating the wrinkles in the skin of a ripe date and forming a herringbone pattern along the edges of the mold seam.
Medium thin glass. Small bubbles, vertically elongated in neck, spherical in body.
Rim tooled. Body blown into a two-part mold of two vertical sections. One continuous mold seam around body (MCT VIII).
Everted rim, folded inward and downward. Very tall (about half of total height) cylindrical neck. Body shaped like a date with a nearly circular cross section.
Relief pattern of knobs and short straight ridges, imitating the wrinkles in the skin of a ripe date and forming a herringbone pattern along the edges of the mold seam.
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