Bulbous Bottle
Bulbous Bottle
Place of OriginRoman Empire
Date4th-5th century
DimensionsGlass Dimensions: 3 × 2 × 2 3/8 in. (7.6 × 5.1 × 6 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1917.142
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass with small bubbles. Bubbly thread.
Transparent natural pale green (10 G 6/2). Translucent dusky blue green thread (near 5 BG 3/2) with red streaks.
Free-blown and tooled. Pontil mark ca. 0.9 cm. Added thread.
Rim rounded in flame. Funnel mouth and concave neck with curved junction at shoulder. Sloping shoulder. Bulbous body with greatest diameter at middle. Concave base.
On neck, six revolutions of thread from left to right and from top to bottom; the lower two revolutions cross each other. Around middle of body, a zigzag with 11 points in either direction continuing upward to base of neck as 4 revolutions of straight thread.
CLASSIFICATION: Bottle.
4th-5th century CE
4th-5th century CE
Late fourth to early fifth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Mid-fourth to mid-fifth century
Probably late fourth to late fifth century
Probably fourth to fifth century
4th-6th century CE
Second to third quarter of fourth century CE
Late 4th-5th century CE
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