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Bottle with Conical Body
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Bottle with Conical Body

Place of OriginEgypt
DateLast Quarter of 1st to Mid-2nd Century
DimensionsH: 8 3/16 in. (21.9 cm); Rim Diam: 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm); Diam (body): 3 3/16 in. (8.1 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.629
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. A few vertical linear bubbles in body and neck. Transparent natural grayish green (near 5 G 5/2). Free-blown. Round wad on base ca. 1.4 cm. Irregular hollow triangular rim, folded outward, upward, inward, and partially flattened. Tall concave neck with greatest diameter below middle and toolmark at its base. Conical body less than one-quarter of total height. Base flattened with slight depression in center. CLASSIFICATION Candlestick Class ID"2a
Published References

Puma R. D. de, Art in Roman Life: Villa to Grave, Roma, "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 2009, p. 139, p. 152, no. 204.

Exhibition History

Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Art in Roman Life: Villa to Grave, September 2003-August 2005 (no cat.).

Dayton Art Institute, The Roman World: Religions and Everyday Life (Featuring the Brooklyn Museum exhibition: Tree of Paradise: Jewish Mosaics from the Roman Empire), September 21, 2007-January 6, 2008 (no cat.).

Toledo Museum of Art, The Egypt Experience: Secrets of the Tomb, October 29, 2010-January 8, 2012.

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