Glass flask decorated with intersecting circles

Roman

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Translucent colorless with pale yellow green tinge.
Plain rounded rim; upper half of neck funnel-shaped, then more cylindrical but still tapering downwards, with tooling indents around base; horizontal but slightly pushed-in shoulder, above vertical collar; spherical body; low base with rounded edge and concave bottom; no pontil mark. Body blown into a four-part mold of three vertical sections, joined to a shallow, disk-shaped base section.
On body, sunken relief design of nine interlocking circles with a dot at the center of each circle, bordered above and below by a double row of smaller dots; on bottom, two faint raised circles around a small central knob.
Intact; deep pitting, weathering, and brilliant iridescence.

Glass flask decorated with intersecting circles, Glass, Roman

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