Tubular Bottle with Indentations
Tubular Bottle with Indentations
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean
Date2nd century CE
DimensionsH: 4 3/16 in. (10.7 cm); Rim Diam: 11/16 in. (1.8 cm); Body Diam: 15/16 in. (2.3 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1109
Not on View
DescriptionThin glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering.
Transparent decolorized glass with a grayish green tinge (10 GY 5/2).
Free-blown. No pontil mark.
Rim folded outward, upward, inward, and downward. Tall crooked neck with downward taper. Bulbous body with near square cross section. Base round.
Four elongated indentations in body.
CLASSIFICATION: Tubular Unguentarium Class IB2.
Third or 4th century
3rd-4th century CE
4th century
4th century
6th to early 7th century
3rd-4th century CE
Second to mid-3rd century CE
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