Double Convex Bottle
Double Convex Bottle
Place of OriginRoman Empire
Date4th-5th century CE
DimensionsH: 6 1/8 in. (15.5 cm); Rim Diam: 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm); Body Diam: 3 9/16 in. (9.0 cm)
MediumGlass; blown in a mold, removed, free-blown, tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1322
Not on View
DescriptionThis Roman bottle, classified as Bottle I C 1 a, is made from thin, transparent light olive glass with a trailed dusky blue-green thread around the neck. The body was formed in a one-part ribbed and grooved mold, then removed and the neck shaped freehand. A tool mark is visible at the base of the funnel-shaped neck. The vessel has no pontil mark and contains a few small bubbles and medium, vertically elongated bubbles in the upper body.
The rim is rounded in flame. The double convex body reaches its widest point just above the middle of the lower half and tapers to a concave base. The upper half of the neck bears six revolutions of trailed thread in at least two segments. The body shows thirty-one vertical mold-blown corrugations.
6th century CE
4th-5th century CE
Late fourth to mid-fifth century
3rd-4th century CE
4th century CE
3rd-4th century CE
Probably fourth century
Probably fourth or sixth century
5th century CE
3rd-4th century CE
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