Object Image

Glass hexagonal bottle

Opaque white.

Plain rim with slight inward lip and flattened top edge; funnel-shaped neck, with pinched tooling marks at base; ovoid body; flat bottom.

On shoulder, six pointed arches, each containing a large ovoid object in high relief; on body, six rectangular panels divided by columns, each with a capital and base and each panel containing a vessel: 1. a spouted and footed jug, with high handle to right; 2. a footed bowl with two curved handles at sides and wide mouth containing indisctinct round objects (fruit?); 3. a footed, round-bodied amphora with two handles on shoulder; 4. a footed bowl with tall cylindrical neck with vertical grooves, the mouth filled with small dimpled objects (gr...

1st century A.D.
Glass; blown in a four-part mold
7.6cm
91.1.1317
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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