Lenticular Bottle
Lenticular Bottle
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Date3rd-4th century CE
DimensionsH: 4 5/8 in. (11.8 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm); Body Diam: 3 1/4 in. (8.2 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.778
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. A few small spherical bubbles in body and vertically elongated bubbles in neck.
Transparent natural pale green (10 G 6/2). Broad manganese-colored streak on lower half of body.
Free-blown. No pontil mark. Body flattened on two sides.
Everted hollow rim, folded outward/upward and inward/downward. Tall cylindrical neck with constriction at its base. Circular flat-walled body. Flat oval base with depression in center; vessel can stand.
3rd-4th century CE
3rd-4th century CE
3rd-4th century CE
Perhaps second century
3rd-4th century CE
3rd-4th century CE
Probably early third century
3rd-4th century CE
3rd-4th century CE
3rd-4th century CE
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