Hexagonal Bottle, Vessels Type, Series A
Hexagonal Bottle, Vessels Type, Series A
Place of OriginPhoenicia
DateProbably first half of first century
DimensionsH: 3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm); Rim Diam: 1 in. (2.5 cm); Diam: 1 9/16 in. (4 cm) Base Diam: 7/8 in. (2.2 cm)
MediumGlass; neck free blown. Body blown into a four-part mold of three vertical sections joined to a disk-shaped base section (MCT II).
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.480
Not on View
DescriptionTranslucent dark purplish blue. Large pale blue and colorless areas resulting from an imperfectly melted batch. Medium thin glass. Clusters of small spherical and large oval bubbles in body and small to very large linear bubbles in neck.
Mold seams between panels 2 and 3, 4 and 5, and 6 and 1. Relief crisp but difficult to distinguish because of the transparency of the glass.
Flaring rim, folded outward, upward, and inward. Cylindrical neck. Sloping shoulder. Bulbous body with greatest diameter halfway between center and base. Low, offset base with flat underside with two raised concentric circles.
Decoration like 1923.531.
Translucent dark purplish blue. Large pale blue and colorless areas resulting from an imperfectly melted batch.
Neck free blown. Body blown into a four-part mold of three vertical sections joined to a disk-shaped base section (MCT II). Mold seams between panels 2 and 3, 4 and 5, and 6 and 1. Relief crisp but difficult to distinguish because of the transparency of the glass.
Flaring rim, folded outward, upward, and inward. Cylindrical neck. Sloping shoulder. Bulbous body with greatest diameter halfway between center and base. Low, offset base with flat underside with two raised concentric circles.
Decoration like Cat. No. 26.
CLASSIFICATION Vessels Type, Series A3, Generation A3a
Published ReferencesStern, E. Marianne, Roman Mold-Blown Glass: The First Through Sixth Centuries, Rome, Italy, "L'Erma" di Bretschneider in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, 1995, cat. no. 27, p. 124.
Arts, P.L.W., "A Collection of Ancient Glass 500 BC - 500 AD," ANTIEK Lochem, 2000, p. 103.
Probably first half of first century
Probably mid-first century
Probably first half of first century
Probably second half of the first century
Second half of the first century CE
Mid-first century or earlier
Probably mid- to second half of first century
Probably mid-first century or earlier
Second half of the first century CE
Probably second quarter of first century
Probably late third or fourth century
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