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Glass bottle shaped like a date

Translucent yellowish brown.

Thin, everted rim folded round and in; flaring neck with concave sides; elongated body; round bottom. One continuous mold seam around body.

Body molded into the shape of a wrinckled date, with pattern of short wavy ridges and hollows.

Intact, except for small chip and crack in rim; some bubbles and blowing striations; slight dulling, iridescence, and whitish weathering.

Credit: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881

Mid-1st to early 2nd century A.D.
Glass; blown in a two-part mold
7.3cm
81.10.234
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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