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
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DescriptionThis squat conical bottle (Candlestick Class VIIIA"2e) is made from transparent natural pale green glass (5 G 7/2). The body contains a large vertically elongated bubble, with a few smaller bubbles of similar shape in the neck. The glass is thin throughout.
The vessel was free-blown and tooled. A circular pontil wad remnant approximately 1.6 cm in diameter is present on the base. The lip is outsplayed with a hollow rim rolled inward. The neck is tall and tapering with a toolmark and slight constriction at its base. The broad, flat conical body makes up about one-sixth of the bottle’s total height. The base is concave.
probably 2nd century
First half of third century
Last Quarter of 1st to Mid-2nd Century
2nd-3rd century CE
probably 2nd century CE
Probably second century
Last quarter of 1st to mid-2nd century
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