Hexagonal Bottle, Fruit Type, Series A

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Hexagonal Bottle, Fruit Type, Series A

Place of OriginPhoenicia, possibly made in Sidon

DatePerhaps second quarter of first century

DimensionsH: 3 1/8 in. (7.93 cm); Rim Diam: 13/16 in. (2.1 cm); Diam: 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm); Base Diam: 15/16 in. (2.4 cm)

MediumMedium thin glass; Opaque white. Neck free blown. Body blown into a three-part mold of three vertical sections (MCT IV A).

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.433

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DescriptionMold seams between panels 2 and 3, 4 and 5, and 6 and 1 meet at center of underside of base. Relief crisp. Rim folded outward, upward, and inward. Tapering neck. Convex circular shoulder and convex circular bottom joined by a hexagonal body. Low, offset base with flat underside. On the shoulder, in blurred relief, an inverted (?) floral motif (pomegranates, lotus, or rounded leaves?). On the body, six rectangular panels divided by thin vertical ribs; bordered below by a narrow band with a simplified egg-and-dart pattern; each panel contains a fruit. In the panels, from left to right: 1 and 4, a pomegranate; 2 and 5, a cedar cone; 3 and 6, a bunch of grapes. Around the bottom, six triangular leaves with double border centered beneath the panels, alternating with slender oval petals beneath each rib. Opaque white. Neck free blown. Body blown into a three-part mold of three vertical sections (MCT IV A). Mold seams between panels 2 and 3, 4 and 5, and 6 and 1 meet at center of underside of base. Relief crisp. Rim folded outward, upward, and inward. Tapering neck. Convex circular shoulder and convex circular bottom joined by a hexagonal body. Low, offset base with flat underside. On the shoulder, in blurred relief, an inverted floral motif (pomegranates, lotus, or rounded leaves?). On the body, six rectangular panels divided by thin vertical ribs; bordered below by a narrow band with a simplified egg-and-dart pattern; each panel contains a fruit. In the panels, from left to right: 1 and 4, a pomegranate; 2 and 5, a cedar cone; 3 and 6, a bunch of grapes. Around the bottom, six triangular leaves with double border centered beneath the panels, alternating with slender oval petals beneath each rib. CLASSIFICATION Fruit Type, Series A1, Generation A1a

Published ReferencesLightfoot, Christopher S., "A Roman Glass Flask in the Gaziantep Museum," Anatolian Studies, Journal of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara 35 (1985) p. 124, no. 14.

Stern, 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. 36, pp. 129-132, col. pl. 5 & 7, pp. 52 and 53, photograph, fig. 55.