Glass bottle
Translucent pale blue green; trails in same color.
Everted rim, folded over and in; cylindrical neck, tapering downwards with horizontal indent at base; broad, sloping shoulder with rounded, slightly bulging outer edge; cylindrical body with sides tapering downwards; deep pushed-in bottom.
On neck, one fine trail, applied as an elongated pad and wound twice round as two parallel lines; a second trail, farther down neck, wound round as one thicker overlapping line.
Intact; a few bubbles and black impurities, especially in neck and rim, and numerous surface scratches of exterior of shoulder and side; some dulling, soil encrustation, brownish weathering, and iridescence.
Tall, with threads on neck.
Everted rim, folded over and in; cylindrical neck, tapering downwards with horizontal indent at base; broad, sloping shoulder with rounded, slightly bulging outer edge; cylindrical body with sides tapering downwards; deep pushed-in bottom.
On neck, one fine trail, applied as an elongated pad and wound twice round as two parallel lines; a second trail, farther down neck, wound round as one thicker overlapping line.
Intact; a few bubbles and black impurities, especially in neck and rim, and numerous surface scratches of exterior of shoulder and side; some dulling, soil encrustation, brownish weathering, and iridescence.
Tall, with threads on neck.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass bottle
- Period: Early Byzantine
- Date: 5th century CE or later
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown and trailed
- Dimensions: H.: 9 9/16 in. (24.3 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
- Object Number: 91.1.1307
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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