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. .