Conical Bottle (Unguentarium)

Artist Unidentified

Period Roman Empire (Ancient Roman, 27 BCE-395 CE)

Place of OriginRoman Levant or Italy

Date1st century CE

Dimensions0.6 lb., 4 13/16 × 1 7/8 × 1 7/16 in. (0.3 kg, 12.2 × 4.7 × 3.7 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1908.47

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DescriptionFree-blown and tooled. Circular scar on base ca. 0.6 cm. Flaring hollow rim, folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Tall cylindrical neck with constriction at its base. Tall conical body more than half of total height with slightly convex walls and greatest diameter at base. Base flattened with depression in center. Thin glass. A few pinprick bubbles in body and small vertically elongated bubbles in neck. Color: Transparent natural pale green (5 G 7/2).