Tubular Bottle
Tubular Bottle
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean
DateFirst half of first century
DimensionsH: 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm); Rim Diam: 7/8 in. (2.3 cm); Body Diam: 1 9/16 in. (4.0 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1115
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. Numerous pinprick and small bubbles, spherical in lower body, vertically elongated in upper body, and linear in neck.
Translucent to transparent light olive brown (5 Y 5/6).
Free-blown. No pontil mark.
Hollow rim, folded outward, upward, and inward. Cylindrical neck with constriction at its base. Piriform body more than two-thirds of total height. Base flattened.
CLASSIFICATION: Tubular unguentarium Class IIA2.
First half of first century
First half of first century
Probably Second half of First Century
First half of first century
possibly first century
Last quarter of 1st to mid-2nd century
Third quarter of first century
3rd-4th century CE
First half to third quarter of first century
First half to third quarter of first century
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