137. Pilgrim Bottle

3D Model

Description: The body of the bottle is flat front-to-back. Rim is round but sharp and jagged, as if recently broken. Neck is cylindrical after which it flattens as it expands into the round and flattened body. There is no palpable pontil mark. The bottle cannot stand.

Date: likely the 4th century AD

Measurements (cm): H: 15.3 W: 7.3 L: 1.3 – 1.6

References:

Auth, Susan H. 1976. Ancient Glass at the Newark Museum from the Eugene Schaefer Collection of Antiquities. Pp. 135.

Isreali, Yael. 2003. Ancient Glass in the Israel Museum: The Eliahu Dobkin Collection and Other Gifts. Pp. 268, no. 357.

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