Hexagonal Bottle, Mixed Symbols Type, Series A

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Hexagonal Bottle, Mixed Symbols Type, Series A

Place of OriginProbably Phoenicia, maybe Sidon, Galilee

DateSecond quarter to mid-first century CE

DimensionsH: 3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm); Rim Diam: 7/8 in. (2.3 cm); Diam: 1 9/16 in. (4 cm); Base Diam: 7/8 in. (2.3 cm)

MediumGlass; mold blown, tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1923.464

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DescriptionTranslucent manganese colored glass. Medium thin. Vertical linear bubbles in neck. Neck free blown. Body blown into a three-part mold of two vertical sections joined to a cup-shaped base section that formed the base and the tongues around the bottom (MCT V A). Vertical mold seams perhaps between panels 6 and 1 and panels 3 and 4 (see Remarks). Relief moderately crisp. Mold sections exceptionally well aligned. Dot-shaped punch marks around outlines of relief. Three circular rings of concentric chill marks on underside of base. Rim folded outward, upward, and inward. Cylindrical neck. Steep downward sloping hexagonal shoulder and short upward sloping circular bottom joined by a hexagonal body. Flat base with central small recessed cylindrical cavity with a tiny round bump in center. On the shoulder, six downturned rays pointing toward corners of panels. On the body, six rectangular panels; each panel contains a different object. In the panels, from left to right: 1, a wreath, or crown, of olive leaves; 2, a footed amphora with globular body and two high handles; 3, a convex, circular object with flat edge (a patera or tympanon); 4, a shepherd's crook; 5, a spouted, footed jug with a high handle to the left; and 6, a conical boss with ten radiate markings. Around the bottom, twenty-five upturned tongues. CLASSIFICATION: Mixed Symbols Type, Series A1, Generation A1b Translucent manganese colored glass. Neck free blown. Body blown into a three-part mold of two vertical sections joined to a cup-shaped base section that formed the base and the tongues around the bottom (MCT V A). Vertical mold seams perhaps between panels 6 and 1 and panels 3 and 4 (see Remarks). Relief moderately crisp. Mold sections exceptionally well aligned. Dot-shaped punch marks around outlines of relief. Three circular rings of concentric chill marks on underside of base. Rim folded outward, upward, and inward. Cylindrical neck. Steep downward sloping hexagonal shoulder and short upward sloping circular bottom joined by a hexagonal body. Flat base with central small recessed cylindrical cavity with a tiny round bump in center. On the shoulder, six downturned rays pointing toward corners of panels. On the body, six rectangular panels; each panel contains a different object. In the panels, from left to right: 1, a wreath, or crown, of olive leaves; 2, a footed amphora with globular body and two high handles; 3, a convex, circular object with flat edge (a patera or tympanon); 4, a shepherdÕs crook; 5, a spouted, footed jug with a high handle to the left; and 6, a conical boss with ten radiate markings. Around the bottom, twenty-five upturned tongues. CLASSIFICATION Mixed Symbols Type, Series A1, Generation A1b

Published ReferencesLightfoot, Christopher S., "A Roman Glass Flask in Gaziantep Museum," Anatolian Studies, vol. 35, 1985, p. 126, no. 21.

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. 43, pp. 138-141, color pls. 5 and 9, pp. 52 and 54, photo, Fig. 3.

Comparative ReferencesSee also Eisen, Gustavus A., Glass, New York, William Edwin Rudge, 1927, fig. 120, p. 250 (note: text of this work is not reliable).