Hexagonal Bottle, Fruit Type, Series A

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Hexagonal Bottle, Fruit Type, Series A

Place of OriginAncient Rome, Phoenicia, possibly made in Sidon

DateProbably mid-first century

DimensionsH: 3 1/16 in. (7.85 cm); Rim Diam: 7/8 in. (2.2 cm); Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.45 cm); Base Diam: 7/8 in. (2.3 cm)

MediumGlass; blown

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.429

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DescriptionMedium thin glass. Opaque white. 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-y 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 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 A1aÐy

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. 13.

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. 38, p. 132.