Squat Conical Bottle
Squat Conical Bottle
Place of Originprobably excavated in Cyprus, Roman Empire
Date200-250 CE
Dimensions6 3/4 × 1 9/16 × 3 3/4 in. (17.1 × 4 × 9.5 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Object number
1916.150
Not on View
DescriptionThin glass. A large vertically elongated bubble in body and a few small vertically elongated bubbles in neck.
Transparent natural pale green (5 G 7/2).
Free-blown and tooled. Remains of circular wad on base ca. 1.6 cm.
Lip outsplayed with hollow rim rolled inward. Tall tapering neck with toolmark and slight constriction at its base. Broad flat conical body about one-sixth of total height. Base concave.
CLASSIFICATION Candlestick Class VIIIA"2e
probably 2nd century
probably 2nd century CE
First half of third century
Probably second century
Last Quarter of 1st to Mid-2nd Century
2nd-4th century CE
Last quarter of 1st to mid-2nd century
Second to mid-third century CE
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