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Bag-Shaped Beaker

Place of OriginRoman Empire
Date3rd-4th century CE
DimensionsGlass Dimensions: 3 3/16 × 2 1/8 × 2 11/16 in. (8.1 × 5.4 × 6.8 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number
1916.156
Not on View
DescriptionThis bag-shaped beaker (Vessberg 1952, Jar type A II) is made of medium thin, transparent natural pale green glass (5 G 7/2) with numerous pinprick bubbles throughout the fabric. It was free-blown and tooled, with a circular pontil mark approximately 0.7 cm in diameter on the base. A thin trail of similarly colored glass is applied approximately 1.7 cm below the rim. The vessel features an outsplayed rim that is rounded and thickened in the flame, with a visible tooling mark along the interior edge. The body swells to its greatest diameter just above the base and narrows into a slightly flattened bottom with a central depression. .

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