Lentoid Bottle with Two Handles

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Lentoid Bottle with Two Handles

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date3rd-4th century CE

DimensionsH: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm); Rim Diam: 1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm); Body Diam: 2 9/16 in. (6.5 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.771

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. A few pinprick and small spherical bubbles. Transparent to translucent natural pale green (10 G 6/2). Similarly colored handles. Free-blown. No pontil mark. Body flattened. Horizontal indentations on either side of body probably caused by edge of marver on which the body was flattened. Tips of handles cut off. Everted rim, folded outward, upward, inward, and flattened. Tall cylindrical neck with constriction at its base. Circular flat-sided body, nearly two-thirds of total height. Oval flattened base with depression in center; vessel can stand.