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Thick-walled perfume bottle.
Translucent dark blue-green.
Everted rim, folded round and in, with uneven flattened upper surface; cylindrical neck, slightly flaring at top and then joining imperceptibly with slender, conical body; pushed-in bottom with circular pontil mark.
Intact; very many bubbles, elongated in neck, and a few glassy impurities; pitting and iridescent weathering.
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Title: Glass perfume bottle
Period: Imperial
Date: late 1st–4th century CE
Culture: Roman, possibly Egyptian
Medium: Glass; blown
Dimensions:
Height: 5 7/8 in. (14.9 cm)
Diameter: 1 5/16 × 1 3/16 in. (3.4 × 3 cm)
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881
Object Number: 81.10.293
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