Cylindrical Bottle
Cylindrical Bottle
Place of OriginRoman Empire
Date1st century CE
DimensionsH: 1 31/32 in. (5.0 cm); Diam (rim): 13/16 in. (2.1 cm); Diam (body): 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1385
Not on View
DescriptionThis cylindrical bottle is made of medium-thin free-blown and tooled glass that is now opaque red with a greenish-black surface and a translucent patchy green base. The fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. The vessel has a broad hollow rim folded outward, upward, inward, and flattened; a cylindrical neck with a curved transition to a sloping shoulder; and a cylindrical body with a slight downward taper. The base is concave, and there is no pontil mark.
Published ReferencesGrose, David, "Ancient Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 20, no. 3, 1978, p. 85, repr. fig. 22.3rd-4th century CE
3rd-4th century CE
4th-5th century CE
1st century CE
1st-2nd century CE
3rd-4th century CE
2nd century CE
4th-6th century CE
Probably mid-1st century or earlier
2nd or early 3rd century CE
about 1st-2nd century CE
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