Lentoid Bottle with Two Handles

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Lentoid Bottle with Two Handles

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date4th century CE

DimensionsH: 5 7/16 in. (13.8 cm); Diam: 1 7/16 in. (3.6 cm)

MediumGlass; mold blown, tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.702

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. A few bubbles. Transparent natural pale green (10 G 6/2). Similarly colored handles. Body blown into a patterned mold. Neck and mouth free-blown. Circular scar on base, ca. 1.2 cm. Body flattened. Tips of handles drawn out thin, folded back, and broken off. Flaring hollow rim, folded outward, upward, and inward. Tall cylindrical neck with constriction at its base. Circular flat-sided body, more than half of total height. Round base; vessel cannot stand. Two coil handles from shoulder to halfway up neck with pinched folds at either attachment. On body, from ca. 0.5 cm below shoulder to 0.5 cm above base, about twenty-eight (?) indistinct expanded mold-blown curved corrugations from upper right to lower left.

Exhibition HistoryCedar Rapids Museum of Art, Art in Roman Life: Villa to Grave, September 2003-August 2005 (no catalog).Comparative ReferencesIncluded by Hayes 1975, 106, as a parallel to his no. 389 (with neck and rim coil).