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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
DescriptionThis mold-blown hexagonal bottle, Fruit Type, Series A1, Generation A1a, is made of opaque pale blue glass (near 5 PB 7/2). The neck was free-blown, while the body was formed in a three-part vertical mold (MCT IV A), with seams converging at the flat underside of the base. Relief is moderately crisp. The rim is folded outward, upward, and inward. A tapering neck rises above a convex circular shoulder and bottom, which are joined by a hexagonal body. Decoration matches that of Cat. No. 36 (TMA 1923.433), with six rectangular panels, each containing a fruit motif—pomegranate, cedar cone, or grape bunch—set between vertical ribs and bordered below with a simplified egg-and-dart pattern.
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.

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

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