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
DescriptionThis vessel is classified as Candlestick Class ID"2a. It is made of transparent natural grayish green glass (near 5 G 5/2). The glass is medium thin with a few vertical linear bubbles visible in the body and neck. The vessel was free-blown and tooled, with a round wad on the base measuring approximately 1.4 cm. It has an irregular hollow triangular rim, folded outward, upward, inward, and partially flattened. The tall concave neck has its greatest diameter below the middle, with a visible tooling mark at its base. The conical body makes up less than one-quarter of the total height and rests on a flattened base with a slight depression in the center.
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.
Probably second century
Probably Late 1st to early 2nd Century
First half of third century
Late second to mid-third century
200-250 CE
Probably First Half of Third Century
Last quarter of 1st to mid-2nd century
2nd-4th century CE
Late 1st to mid-2nd century
Possibly fourth century
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