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 (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.
4th-5th century CE
Fourth century
3rd-4th century CE
4th-5th century CE
Probably fourth to fifth century
Late fourth to late fifth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Probably fourth century
Membership
Become a TMA member today
Support TMA
Help support the TMA mission