Bottle with Domed Body
Bottle with Domed Body
Artist
Unidentified
Period
Roman Empire
(Ancient Roman, 27 BCE-395 CE)
Place of OriginRoman Levant
Dateprobably 2nd century CE
Dimensions4 3/16 × 1 15/16 × 13/16 in. (10.6 × 4.9 × 2 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Object number
1908.54
Not on View
DescriptionThis vessel (Candlestick Class V2a) is made of transparent glass with a dusky yellow-green tint (5 GY 5/2). It is thin-walled and contains pinprick and small spherical bubbles in the body and vertically elongated bubbles in the neck. The form was shaped by free-blowing and tooling. The rim is horizontally outsplayed and folded inward. The neck is tall and cylindrical with a tool mark at its base. The small body is domed, and the base is flattened. There is no pontil mark.
Mid-fifth to mid-sixth century
First half of first century
1st-2nd century CE
about 3rd century CE
1st century CE
Fourth century
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