Toilet Bottle

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Object Name: 
Toilet Bottle
Place Made: 
Roman Empire
Eastern Mediterranean
Accession Number: 
51.1.210
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 4.7 cm, Diam (max): 2.5 cm; Rim Diam: 1.6 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1-99
Primary Description: 
Toilet Bottle. Transparent pale green glass; blown. Squat ovoid shape body; with clearly delineated shoulder, rim folded outward, upward, inward and flattened; short cylindrical neck with constriction at bottom, truncated conical shoulder with convex side, marked off at bottom by tooling, plain base with vestigial kick, no pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Category: 
Roman
Color: 
Transparent pale green
Technique: 
blown

Exhibitions (1)

The Book and the Spade
Venue(s)
University of Wisconsin-Madison 1975 through 1975

Publications (2)

Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, Volume One (1997) p. 130, #208; p. 343, #208; BIB# 58895
The Book and the Spade : v. 3: Final Report (1975) #201; BIB# 19420