Glass flask

Roman

Not on view

Colorless.
Uneven, rounded rim with beveled outer lip; flaring mouth; short, cylindrical neck, slightly tooled in around base; elongated piriform body; small, concave bottom.
Wheel-abraded decoration on body in horizontal bands; two broad bands of lines around upper part of body; two thinner bands just below point of greatest diameter. Decoration is now hard to trace because of surface weathering.
Intact; some large and elongated bubbles; dulling, pitting, and iridescent weathering.

Glass flask, Glass, Roman

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