Glass bottle

Roman

Not on view

Colorless with faint greenish tinge.

Outsplayed horizontal rim with broad, flat lip; cylindrical neck, expanding at base; horizontal shoulder; funnel-shaped body with straight side; small, solid, conical base with flat bottom.

On neck, two parallel horizontal, pointed ridges in relief; stepped ridge between base of neck and shoulder; four cuts around outer shoulder forming a square; on edge of shoulder and body, four elongated arched shapes, hollow at center; deep, horizontal groove at top of body; below, band of thirteen diagonal ridges, slanting and tapering downward from left to right.

Two large chips in rim, and small chip in base; dulling, pitting, iridescence, and patches of brown weathering, and soil encrustation on interior.

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