Barrel-Shaped Bottle
Barrel-Shaped Bottle
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Date1st century CE
DimensionsH: 2 3/4 in. (7.0 cm); Rim Diam: 3 5/32 in. (8.0 cm); Max Diam: 3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown, tooled, and wheel cut
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.653
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering.
Transparent natural pale green (5 G 7/2).
Free-blown; cut.
Rim ground. Convex sides. Base flattened.
Two shallow wheel-cut grooves: one at the rim, the other ca. 2.0 cm below; a wheel-cut incision ca. 2.5 cm above base.
CLASSIFICATION Isings 1957, Form 12; Vessberg 1952, Beaker type A III, pl. III 21 (variation).
1st century CE
1st century CE
1st century CE
4th-5th century
4th-5th century CE (?)
1st century CE
Mid- to second half of first century
Probably mid-1st century, about 40-70
1st Century
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