Bulbous Bottle with Inner Diaphragm

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Bulbous Bottle with Inner Diaphragm

Place of OriginSaid to be from Baalbek, Lebanon, Syria, Ancient Rome

Date3rd-4th century CE

DimensionsH: 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm); Rim Diam: 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm); Body Diam: 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm)

MediumGlass; blown in a mold, removed, free blown

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Preston Levis

Object number

1967.152

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. Small bubbles. Black specks. Blowing spirals. Transparent natural grayish yellow green (near 5 GY 7/2). Body blown into a vertically grooved cylindrical mold and expanded. Relief very indistinct. Neck and mouth free-blown. Pontil mark ca. 1.8 cm over reamer mark. Rim outsplayed horizontally and rounded and thickened in flame. Tall slightly tapering tubular neck with constriction at its base where an interior cut-out forms a diaphragm with an aperture of ca. 0.6 cm. Bulbous body with greatest diameter where bubble was expanded most. On body, ca. 18 expanded mold-blown vertical ribs widening toward greatest diameter where bubble was expanded most.