Squat Bulbous Bottle
Squat Bulbous Bottle
Place of OriginAncient Rome
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
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass with numerous irregularly shaped small and medium bubbles (0.5 cm). Blowing spirals.
Transparent natural pale green (5 G 7/2). Translucent moderate blue green thread (near 5 BG 4/6).
Free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.0 cm. Added thread.
Rim rounded in flame. Tall funnel neck with curved transition to shoulder. Gently sloping shoulder. Squat bulbous body with greatest diameter above middle. Base flattened with slight depression in center.
On neck, fifteen and a half revolutions of thread from left to right, starting at base of neck. On lower half of body, zigzag from right to left with 22 points in either direction, trailed on in two sections. The second longer thread continues as three revolutions on upper part of body.
3rd-4th century CE
4th-5th century CE
Probably second half of fourth to early fifth century
Fourth century
Probably fifth to early sixth century
4th-5th century
about 3rd-4th century CE
4th-5th century CE
Probably fifth to early sixth century
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