Bulbous Bottle
Bulbous Bottle
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Date3rd-4th century CE
DimensionsH: 6 3/16 in. (17 cm); Rim Diam: 1 7/16 in. (3.7 cm); Diam (body): 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown, tooled, cut
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.910
Not on View
DescriptionThick glass. Medium-sized vertically elongated linear bubbles in neck.
Natural green; spherical body; thick flattened rim; long cylindrical neck; two cut grooves at shoulder; body with four large cut circles, each with three circles inside.
Transparent natural yellowish green (not in rock color chart).
Free-blown. No pontil mark. Wheel-cut.
Hollow rim, folded outward, downward, outward, and upward. Tall tubular neck tapering upward. Gently sloping shoulder. Near spherical body. Flattened base.
Around neck, two wide wheel-cut grooves. Around shoulder, two narrower wheel-cut grooves. On body, cut geometric design of four groups of concentric circles.
CLASSIFICATION Bulbous Bottle I A 3 a
about 1st-2nd century CE
Probably first half of first century
Probably mid-first century
about 1st-2nd Century
4th century CE
Mid-first century
Probably mid-1st century, about 40-70
Probably first century BCE, possibly later
4th century CE
1st-2nd century CE
1st-2nd century CE
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