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Hexagonal Bottle, Fruit Type, Series A
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Hexagonal Bottle, Fruit Type, Series A

Place of OriginPhoenicia, possibly made in Sidon
DateProbably second quarter of first century
DimensionsH: 3 1/16 in. (7.7 cm); Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm); Rim Diam: 15/16 in. (2.4 cm); Base Diam: 7/8 in. (2.3 cm)
MediumGlass; mold blown in a three-part mold, tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.434
Not on View
DescriptionOpaque pale blue (near 5 PB 7/2). Neck free blown. Body blown into a three-part mold of three vertical sections (MCT IV). Mold seams between panels 2 and 3, 4 and 5, and 6 and 1 meet at center of underside of base. Relief moderately crisp. Rim folded outward, upward, and inward. Tapering neck. Convex circular shoulder and convex circular bottom joined by a hexagonal body. Base flat. Decoration like 1923.433. CLASSIFICATION: Fruit Type, Series A1, Generation A1a Opaque pale blue (near 5 PB 7/2). 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 moderately crisp. Rim folded outward, upward, and inward. Tapering neck. Convex circular shoulder and convex circular bottom joined by a hexagonal body. Base flat. Decoration like Cat. No. 36. 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. 15 (reprint in doc file 1923.429).

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. 37, p. 132, color pl. 7, p. 53.

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Hexagonal Bottle, Fruit Type, Series A
Probably mid-first century
Hexagonal Bottle, Fruit Type, Series A
Hexagonal Bottle, Fruit Type, Series A
Probably second half of first century
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Hexagonal Bottle, Masks Type, Series A
Probably second quarter of the first century
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Hexagonal Bottle, Fruit Type, Series A
Perhaps second quarter of first century
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Hexagonal Bottle, Masks Type, Series A
Probably second quarter of the first century
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Hexagonal Bottle, Vessels Type, Series A
Probably first quarter of first century
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Hexagonal Bottle, Vessels Type, Series A
Probably first quarter of first century
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Hexagonal Bottle, Vessels Type, Series A
Probably first quarter of first century
Image Not Available for Hexagonal Bottle, Vessels Type, Series A
Hexagonal Bottle, Vessels Type, Series A
Probably mid-first century
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Hexagonal Bottle, Vessels Type, Series A
Probably first half of first century
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Hexagonal Bottle, Birds Type, Series A
Probably second quarter of first century
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Hexagonal Bottle, Vessels Type, Series A
Probably first quarter of first century

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