RG088
Roman light purple glass bottle with white glass spiral thread and trefoil rim.
1st century AD
H. 10.45 cm (4 1/8 in.)
Missing part of thread around neck, otherwise perfect.
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The bottle with squat globular body, tapering cylindrical neck, and trefoil flaring rim.
The body decorated with spiral white glass thread, from the center of the base to the neck.
A rare combination of form, rim, and ornament.
For the bottle shape with regular rim:
Cf. Israeli, Y. Israel Museum, 2003, p. 116, no. 103.
Whitehouse, D., Corning Museum of Glass, 2001, p. 169, nos. 700, 701.
Israeli, Y. Ancient Glass in the Israel Museum: The Eliahu Dobkin Collection and Other Gifts, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2003
Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol. II, New York, 2001
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