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

Not on View

DescriptionThis thin-walled bottle is made of transparent pale green glass (5 G 7/2). It was free-blown and shaped with tools. The rim is flaring and hollow, folded in four directions: outward, upward, inward, and downward. The tall cylindrical neck features a constriction at the base. The conical body, which makes up more than half of the vessel’s height, has slightly convex walls and its widest point at the base. The base is flattened with a central depression and a circular scar approximately 0.6 cm wide. The glass contains a few pinprick bubbles in the body and small elongated bubbles in the neck.