Piriform Bottle (Unguentarium)

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Piriform Bottle (Unguentarium)

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date1st century CE

DimensionsH: 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm); Diam (rim): 1 3/16 in. (3.1 cm); Diam (body): 2 1/2 in. (6.3 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown, threads picked up and combed, reinflated and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1476

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering. Translucent grayish green. Opaque white thread. Free-blown. No pontil mark. Added thread, tooled and melted into surface. Rim folded outward, upward, inward, and flattened. Tall cylindrical neck with constriction at its base. Piriform body approximately three-fifths of total height. Flattened base with slight depression in center. Embedded white spiral thread from center of base to rim, combed upward to form an irregular pattern of quintuple festoons. CLASSIFICATION: Isings 1957, Form 28 A.

Published ReferencesHayes, John W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975, p. 72, no. 242 (A close parallel dated "Early mid 1st century A.D.").