Lentoid Bottle with Two Handles

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Lentoid Bottle with Two Handles

Place of OriginRoman Empire

Date3rd-4th century CE

DimensionsH: 5 5/8 in. (14.2 cm); Rim Diam: 1 15/16 in. (5.0 cm); Body Diam: 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm)

MediumGlass; free-blown, tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.1242

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DescriptionThis vessel is made of thick glass with a few small vertically elongated bubbles in the neck. It is transparent to translucent dark manganese-colored glass with translucent light olive gray handles. The bottle was free-blown, with the remains of a circular wad on the base about 1.3 cm wide. The body is flattened, showing steam impressions on one side—one semicircular and one straight. The tips of the handles were drawn out thin and rounded in the flame. The vessel has a flaring hollow rim that is folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. The cylindrical neck has a constriction at its base. The circular, flat-sided body makes up more than half of the vessel’s total height and tapers to a flattened base. The base is shaped so that the vessel cannot stand upright on its own.