Glass rhyton (drinking horn)

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent pale blue green.
Tubular rim, folded out, slightly down, over, and in; flaring mouth; short cylindrical neck; elongated cylindrical body, tapering downwards and then curving out and down to pointed end.
Intact, but broken at end and missing tip of horn; some elongated bubbles; slight pitting of surface bubbles, small areas of whitish weathering, iridescence on exterior, most of interior covered with soil-encrusted weathering and brilliant iridescence.

With curved foot ending in a point.

Glass rhyton (drinking horn), Glass, Roman

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