Glass sprinkler flask

Roman, Eastern Mediterranean

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent pale green.

Uneven, rounded rim, flaring upwards, with projecting folded flange below; broad mouth; short cylindrical neck, curving in slightly at base, where it has a folded diaphragm with small hole at center; globular body; flat bottom, slightly pushed-in at center with small round pontil mark.

On lower half of body, three irregular horizontal rows of tooled knobs (11 in top row, 12 in middle, and 9 in bottom).

Intact; a few bubbles and black impurities; some limy soil encrustation, creamy weathering, and iridescence.

Glass sprinkler flask, Glass, Roman, Eastern Mediterranean

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