Glass bottle with two handles

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent pale blue green; handles, foot ring, and trail in same color.
Thick, vertical, cracked-off rim; cylindrical neck; pushed-in shoulder; globular body; applied solid foot ring; flat bottom, slightly pushed-in at center; two three-ribbed strap handles applied to top of body in large pads with downturned fins, drawn up in a circular loop, and attached to neck and underside of collar.
Broad, flat collar applied as a coil to neck at midpoint; on body, bands of faint horizontal wheel-cut lines, either as single lines or in groups.
Broken and repaired, with numerous cracks and three small losses to side of body; some pinprick bubbles; dulling, iridescence, and creamy brown weathering, with some soil encrustation on inside of neck.

Greenish, two handled bottle with handle ridge.

Glass bottle with two handles, Glass, Roman

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