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LOT 0700
Roman Green Glass Bottle
2ND-4TH CENTURY A.D.
7 1/2 in. (85 grams, 19 cm high).
With large piriform body and dimpled base; funicular, waisted neck and rolled rim.
Provenance
Acquired in the 1970s, thence by descent 2012.
Private UK collection, Cambridge, UK.
Property of an East Sussex, UK, gentleman.
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