Glass perfume bottle

Roman, possibly Egyptian

Not on view

Thick-walled perfume bottle.

Translucent dark blue-green.

Everted rim, folded round and in, with uneven flattened upper surface; cylindrical neck, slightly flaring at top and then joining imperceptibly with slender, conical body; pushed-in bottom with circular pontil mark.

Intact; very many bubbles, elongated in neck, and a few glassy impurities; pitting and iridescent weathering.

Glass perfume bottle, Glass, Roman, possibly Egyptian

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