Tubular Bottle
Tubular Bottle
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean
DateThird quarter of first century
DimensionsH: 4 3/16 in. (10.6 cm); Rim Diam: 1 in. (2.5 cm); Body Diam: 1 9/32 in. (3.3 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1106
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. Small spherical and vertically elongated bubbles in body and vertical linear bubbles in neck.
Transparent decolored glass with a pale green tinge (5 G 7/2).
Free-blown. Presence of pontil mark cannot be determined due to cracks in base.
Rim folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Tall cylindrical neck with constriction at its base. Tall triangular body half of total height. Base flattened.
CLASSIFICATION: Tubular unguentarium Class IA2.
Mid to third Quarter of the 1st century
Probably third quarter of of first century
First half to third quarter of first century
First half to third quarter of first century
possibly first century
Third quarter of first century
First half of first century
First half of first century
First half of first century
First half of first century
Probably Second half of First Century
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