Squat Bulbous Bottle

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Squat Bulbous Bottle

Place of OriginRoman Empire

Date4th-5th century CE

DimensionsH: 2 13/16 in. (7.2 cm); Rim Diam: 1 1/8 in. (2.8 cm); Body Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1062

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DescriptionMedium thin glass with numerous irregularly shaped small and medium bubbles (up to 0.5 cm) and visible blowing spirals. Transparent natural pale green body (5 G 7/2) with translucent moderate blue green thread (near 5 BG 4/6). The vessel is free-blown with a pontil mark approximately 1.0 cm in diameter. Added thread decoration is present. The rim is rounded in flame. A tall funnel neck curves smoothly into a gently sloping shoulder. The squat bulbous body has its greatest diameter above the middle. The base is flattened with a slight depression in the center. On the neck, fifteen and a half revolutions of thread are trailed from left to right, starting at the base of the neck. On the lower half of the body, a zigzag thread with twenty-two points in each direction is trailed on in two sections, with the second thread continuing as three additional revolutions on the upper part of the body.