138. Pilgrim Bottle

3D Model

Description: The body is flat front-to-back. Rim is rounded but broken, as if recently broken. Neck is cylindrical after which it flattens to join the body section. There is no palpable pontil mark. The bottle cannot stand freely. The neck has some long bubbles and diagonal cracks.

Date: 4th century AD

Measurements (cm): H: 14.9 W: 8.4 L: 1.4

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.