Cylindrical Bottle with Collar Rim
Cylindrical Bottle with Collar Rim
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Date5th-6th century CE
DimensionsMax H: 4 7/8 in. (12.3 cm); Max Diam: 2 3/4 in. (7.0 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.2118
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. A few pinprick and small spherical bubbles in body and horizontally elongated bubbles in collar and rim.
Transparent natural pale green (10 G 6/2).
Body blown into a vertically grooved and ribbed pattern mold; the ribs can be felt on the interior. Neck and mouth free-blown. Cutout below rim. Circular scar on base ca. 1.8 cm.
Collar rim, rounded in flame with external projecting roll. Flaring neck with tool mark at its base. Sloping shoulder with no apparent bulge. Cylindrical body with slightly concave walls tapering downward. Flattened base with depression in center.
On body, mold blown pattern of twenty-five vertical ribs alternating with grooves from shoulder to base slanting unintentionally toward left and right.
Glass; mold-blown and tooled.
5th-6th century CE
Probably fourth century
Fourth century
Possibly fourth century
5th-6th century CE
Probably mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
4th-early 5th century CE (?)
4th-5th century CE (?)
Late 2nd to early 3rd century CE
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