Bottle with Conical Body
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 ReferencesPuma R. D. de, Art in Roman Life: Villa to Grave, Roma, "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 2009, p. 139, p. 152, no. 204.
Exhibition HistoryCedar 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.
Last quarter of 1st to mid-2nd century
Probably First Half of Third Century
Probably mid -second to mid-third century
Last quarter of 1st to mid-2nd century
200-250 CE
Late second to mid-third century
2nd-4th century CE
Late 2nd to mid-3rd century
Second to mid-third century CE
probably 2nd century
Probably third quarter of of first century
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