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LOT 0709
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.
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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