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LOT 0926

Roman Aubergine Glass Bottle

1ST CENTURY B.C-1ST CENTURY A.D.

2 3/4 in. (10.6 grams, 70 mm).

With bulbous body, tubular neck, broad everted rim; extensive iridescence.

Provenance

From an important London collection of glass, 1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Literature

Cf. Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol.1, New York, 1997, item 203, for type.

Footnotes

Similar bottles were found in the Cemetery of Ein-Gedi in the Judaean Desert, in a settlement abandoned in 40-37 B.C, and in Homs, Syria, dated to the first half of the first century A.D. These are among the first earliest datable blown bottles.

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LOT 0926

Roman Aubergine Glass Bottle

Estimate £300 - 400€350 - 460 (for guidance only)$410 - 540 (for guidance only)

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