Glass bottle

Unknown

ca. 4th century CE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Translucent blue green; trails in same color. Everted, slightly thickened, and rounded rim; broad, flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, tooled in horizontally at base; large conical body, curving in below to thick, pushed-in bottom with central jagged pontil ring. On underside of mouth, thick solid single trail; another trail wound round top of body 1 1/2 times; on body, ten bands of wheel-abraded lines, arranged in pairs and set at regular intervals down side. Complete, but broken on one side and repaired with crack running around upper body; many bubbles, some large, a few glassy inclusions in body, and black impurities in trails; faint iridescence, slight whitish weathering on bottom in interior.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 4th century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of Robert L. Hermanos, 1998