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 half of first century

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

MediumGlass; mold blown, tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.435

Not on View

DescriptionPossibly transparent pale blue, but color difficult to determine because of weathering. 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. Cylindrical 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-yy. Possibly transparent pale blue, but color difficult to determine because of weathering. 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. Cylindrical 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 A1aÐyy.

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, pp. 124-125, no. 16.

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. 39, p. 133.