Glass bottle shaped like a date

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent deep yellowish brown.
Thick, everted rim folded round and in; short cylindrical neck; elongated body; uneven round bottom. One continuous mold seam around body, extending to top of neck.
Body molded into the shape of a wrinkled date, with pattern of short wavy ridges and hollows.
Intact; dulling, faint iridescence, some whitish weathering, and encrustation.

Glass bottle shaped like a date, Glass, Roman

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Glass bottle shaped like a date, Glass, Roman
Glass bottle shaped like a date, Glass, Roman

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