Glass beaker with indented sides

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent light blue green.
Everted rim, with thickened, rounded lip; side tapering downwards, then bulging outwards at corners, and curving in to tubular foot ring, made by folding; low kick at center of bottom with large circular pontil mark.
On lower half of body, four deep round or oval indents, giving square shape to side.
Intact; pitting to surface bubbles, slight limy encrustation, and patches of creamy weathering and iridescence.

Greenish, with indented sides.

Glass beaker with indented sides, Glass, Roman

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