Glass globular bottle

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Colorless with light green tinge.
Collared rim, folded out, down, up, and out, and flattened upper surface; cylindrical, slightly convex neck, tooled in at base; horizontal shoulder; globular body; slightly concave bottom.
On body, three bands of wheel-cut horizontal lines: above, two shallow lines; at center, three deeper lines; below, two more shallow lines.
Intact; some bubbles; dulling, iridescent weathering, and some brown, limy encrustation around lower body.

Globular bottle with short neck: the body is decorated with horizontal cut bands.

Glass globular bottle, Glass, Roman

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