Glass bottle

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent pale blue green; trails in same color.
Everted rim, folded over and in; cylindrical neck, tapering downwards with horizontal indent at base; broad, sloping shoulder with rounded, slightly bulging outer edge; cylindrical body with sides tapering downwards; deep pushed-in bottom.
On neck, one fine trail, applied as an elongated pad and wound twice round as two parallel lines; a second trail, farther down neck, wound round as one thicker overlapping line.
Intact; a few bubbles and black impurities, especially in neck and rim, and numerous surface scratches of exterior of shoulder and side; some dulling, soil encrustation, brownish weathering, and iridescence.

Tall, with threads on neck.

Glass bottle, Glass, Roman

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