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Thick-walled perfume bottle.
Uncertain color (translucent pale blue-green?).
Flaring rim, folded in and flattened on top; cylindrical neck, with tooling indents around base; elongated, piriform body; round bottom.
One large hole with weathered edges in lower body, and one small slit hole in neck below rim; pinprick bubbles; deep pitting, weathering, and brilliant iridescence on exterior, some creamy weathering on interior.
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Title: Glass perfume bottle
Period: Early Imperial
Date: 1st century CE
Culture: Roman
Medium: Glass; blown
Dimensions: H.: 2 9/16 in. (6.5 cm)
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915
Accession Number: 30.115.61
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