Bottle
Bottle
Place of OriginSyria
DateArabic Period
DimensionsH: 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.2080
Not on View
DescriptionOvoid body on flat base with narrow cylindrical neck. Translucent dark manganese purple glass. Iridescent and roughened by disintegration. Decoration all over body of intersecting diagonal lines, leaving small depressed diamond-shaped spaces between. On bottom, a well defined rectangle with a depression in the center.
about 1150 BCE
Probably late 3rd century
6th Dynasty (2345-2181 BCE)
Probably 6th century
Late 6th through 5th century BCE
mid-2nd to early 1st century BCE
3rd-4th Century
Late 6th through 5th century BCE
about 550-400 BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd century BCE
3rd century BCE
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