Lenticular Bottle

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Lenticular Bottle

Place of OriginAncient Rome

Date3rd-4th century CE

DimensionsH: 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm); Rim Diam: 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm); Body Diam: 3 1/8 in. (8.0 cm)

MediumGlass; free blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.777

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DescriptionMedium thick glass. Numerous small to medium-sized spherical and horizontally elongated bubbles in body, vertically elongated bubbles in neck. Transparent light olive brown (between 5 Y 5/6 and 10 Y 5/4). Free-blown. Circular pontil scar on base, ca. 1.4 cm. Body flattened on two sides. Everted hollow rim, folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Tall cylindrical neck with curved transition to shoulder. Circular flat-sided body, about two-thirds of total height. Round base; vessel cannot stand.