Lentoid Bottle with Two Handles

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Lentoid Bottle with Two Handles

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date3rd-4th century CE

DimensionsH: 5 3/16 in. (13.2 cm); Body Diam: 3 1/2 in. (8.8 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1167

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DescriptionTransparent to translucent amber. Translucent pale green (10 G 6/2) handles and neck coil. Oval scar on base, ca. 1.2 x 0.9 cm. Body flattened. Tips of handles folded upward against neck and cut off. Rim reworked; lightly ground. Tall cylindrical neck with curved transition to shoulder. Pouch-shaped body, more than three-quarters of total height, near flat on the side which was flattened first and convex on other side. Round base; vessel cannot stand. Two coil handles from shoulder to halfway up neck, over coil. Neck coil halfway down neck. Medium thick glass. Small spherical bubbles in body and vertically elongated bubbles in neck.