Octagonal Bottle with One Handle

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Octagonal Bottle with One Handle

Place of OriginRoman Empire

Dateabout 3rd century CE

DimensionsH: 16 in. (40.6 cm); Diam: 13 3/4 in. (16 cm); Rim Diam: 6 5/16 in. (34.9 cm)

MediumGlass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1965.177

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DescriptionTransparent green glass, octagonal, with applied strap handle. Medium thick glass. Numerous pinprick and small spherical bubbles, elongated vertically toward top of body. Blowing spirals. Transparent natural dusky yellow green (5 GY 5/2). Body blown into a one-part mold with patterned base. Neck and rim free-blown. Circular wad on base ca. 2.7 cm. Relief indistinct. Excess glass at tip of handle drawn up against rim and tip either cut or broken off. Collar rim, rounded in flame with projecting pinched cut-out below. Irregular concave neck. Crooked concave shoulder with bulge on one side. Octagonal straight-walled body with slight downward taper. Concave base with kick. Strap handle with four broad ribs from shoulder to top of rim. Mold-blown Greek inscription on underside of base: EYNOEI CU (retrograde), "You be friendly (kindly disposed)."

Published ReferencesGrose, David, "Ancient Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 20, no. 3, 1978, p. 81, repr. fig. 17.

Grose, David, "The Origins and Early History of Glass," The History of Glass, London, 1984, repr. p. 31.

Groffi, T. and J. Heus, Beschavingen 2, Antwerp, 1990, repr. p. 241.

Cummings, Keith, A History of Glassforming, London, 2002, p. 80, repr.