Triangular Bottle
Triangular Bottle
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Date1st century CE
DimensionsH: 4 9/32 in. (10.9 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/16 in. (3.0 cm); Max Diam: 2 3/8 in. (6.1 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown, threads picked up, reinflated and tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.630
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. Numerous small spherical and pinprick bubbles.
Translucent dusky yellow green (near 5 GY 5/2) but more yellow. Opaque white thread.
Free-blown. Pontil mark approximately 1.2 cm. Added thread melted into surface.
Rim folded outward, upward, inward, and flattened. Tall cylindrical neck with tool mark at its base. Conical body, approximately half of the total height. Broad flattened base.
Embedded white spiral thread from center of base to rim.
CLASSIFICATION Isings 1957, Form 28 A (late development)
1st century CE
1st century CE
1st century CE (or modern?)
1st century CE
1st century CE
1st century CE
1st century CE
Mid-third to mid-fourth centuries
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