Bulbous Bottle
Bulbous Bottle
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Date3rd-4th century CE
DimensionsH: 3 5/16 in. (8.4 cm); Rim Diam: 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm); Body Diam: 2 9/16 in. (6.6 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.2409
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. Small bubbles.
Transparent natural grayish-green (near 10 GY 5/2).
Body blown into a vertically ribbed and grooved cylindrical mold and expanded. Neck and mouth free-blown.
Crooked rim outsplayed at a 45-degree angle, rounded and thickened in flame with partial tool mark on interior. Tubular neck with bulge in middle and constriction at its base. Horizontal shoulder. Bulbous body with greatest diameter at middle. Base flattened with slight depression in center.
On body, twenty-five expanded mold-blown vertical corrugations widening toward center where bubble was expanded most.
Glass; blown in a mold, removed, free-blown.
3rd-4th century CE
3rd-4th century CE
3rd-4th century CE
3rd-4th century CE
Late fourth to mid-fifth century
2nd-3rd Century CE
3rd-4th century CE
3rd-4th century CE
Probably fourth century
3rd-5th century CE
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