Glass two-handled bottle
Translucent light green; handles in blue green.
Thick, outsplayed rim, folded round and in, and flattened into side of small, flaring mouth; tall, cylindrical, slight funnel-shaped neck, with horizontal tooling indent around base; tall, slender, conical body; kick in bottom, with centralmark; twomark; two heavy rod handles, applied as claw pads to top of body, drawn upward, turned in horizattached, attachd to middle and trailednd trailed off above.
Body decorated with many, close-set spiral ribs.
Intact; some pinprick and large bubbles; handles mostly covered with soil encrustation and whitish iridescence weathering; dulling, pitting, and iridescence on exterior, some soil encrustation and whitish iridescence weathering on interior.
Thick, outsplayed rim, folded round and in, and flattened into side of small, flaring mouth; tall, cylindrical, slight funnel-shaped neck, with horizontal tooling indent around base; tall, slender, conical body; kick in bottom, with centralmark; twomark; two heavy rod handles, applied as claw pads to top of body, drawn upward, turned in horizattached, attachd to middle and trailednd trailed off above.
Body decorated with many, close-set spiral ribs.
Intact; some pinprick and large bubbles; handles mostly covered with soil encrustation and whitish iridescence weathering; dulling, pitting, and iridescence on exterior, some soil encrustation and whitish iridescence weathering on interior.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass two-handled bottle
- Period: Late Imperial
- Date: ca. 4th–5th century CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Glass; blown in a dip mold
- Dimensions: H.: 6 7/16 in. (16.3 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915
- Object Number: 30.115.77
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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