Bottle | Yale University Art Gallery

3rd–4th century A.D. or later

Medium: Free-blown glass with pinched rib decoration, deep purple
Dimensions: 9.6 × 5.74 cm (3 3/4 × 2 1/4 in.)
Neck diameter: 2.36 cm (15/16 in.)
Mouth diameter: 5.41 cm (2 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: The Anna Rosalie Mansfield Collection
Accession Number: 1930.438
Culture: Roman, Eastern Mediterranean, Syrian(?)
Period: Roman
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

de Morgan sale, 1901; Mansfield Collection. no. 121.

Bibliography

Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 84–5, no. 229, ill.

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Additional information

Object/Work type

bottles

n.s.

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