Lentoid Bottle with Two Handles
Lentoid Bottle with Two Handles
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Date3rd-4th century CE
DimensionsH: 5 7/8 in. (14.9 cm); Rim Diam: 1 7/16 in. (3.7 cm); Body Diam: 3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.770
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. A few small diagonally elongated bubbles in body (in direction of mold blown pattern) and vertically elongated bubbles in body. End of handles cut off.
Transparent brownish manganese colored glass. Translucent pale yellowish manganese colored handles.
Body blown into a patterned mold with grooves, twisted, and reblown. Neck and rim free-blown. Oval scar on base, ca. 1.5 x 0.7 cm. Body flattened.
Flaring rim, folded outward, upward, and inward. Tall cylindrical neck with constriction at its base. Drop-shaped flat-sided body, about two-thirds of total height. Round base; vessel cannot stand. Two coil handles from halfway down neck to rim.
On body, from ca. 2.0 cm below neck to 1.5 cm above base, twenty-eight indistinct expanded mold-blown curved corrugations running from upper right to lower left.
3rd-4th century CE
Probably fourth century
Probably fourth century
Probably fifth to early sixth century
Probably fourth century
Sixth to early seventh century
3rd-4th century CE
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