Bird-Shaped Vessel (Askos?)
Bird-Shaped Vessel (Askos?)
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Date1st-2nd century CE
DimensionsH: 4 1/8 in. (16.4 cm); Rim Diam: 2 5/16 in. (5.9 cm); Body Diam: 2 1/2 in. (6.3 cm)
MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1229
Not on View
DescriptionTransparent natural grayish-green (near 10 GY 5/2, but more yellow.)
No pontil mark.
Vessel shaped vaguely like a bird with a large round opening where the head would have been. Funnel mouth with unworked rim. Short cylindrical neck. Elongated ovoid body with sides tapering to long, solid tail curving upward in an "S" shape. Tail grooved on forward edge and top of tip. Oval concave base oriented lengthwise with lengthwise ridge.
Thin glass. A few small bubbles.
1st-2nd century CE
1st-2nd century CE
1st-2nd century CE
about 575 BCE
Dynasty 11 or thereabouts, around 2100 BCE
Late fourth through end of fifth century
Early to Late 15th century
Mid-first to early second century
Probably mid-first century
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