Drop-Shaped Bottle (Unguentarium)
Drop-Shaped Bottle (Unguentarium)
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Date1st-4th century CE
DimensionsH: 3 in. (7.6 cm); Rim Diam: 13/16 in. (2.1 cm); Body Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1124
Not on View
Description
Bottle made of medium thin transparent green glass. The fabric cannot be determined due to weathering. The vessel has no trace of a pontil mark. It features a rim folded outward, upward, and inward, a cylindrical neck with a constriction at its base, and a drop-shaped body. The base is rounded.
Last quarter of 1st to mid-2nd century
3rd-5th century CE
1st-2nd century CE
Mid to third Quarter of the 1st century
about 1st-2nd century CE
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