Roman bottle with spiral trailing, 1st-2nd century AD

Free blown in clear glass, with splayed and folded lip, the spherical body is decorated with fine spiral trailing in opaque white, continuing half way up the tall cylindrical neck. Intact, a few small areas of trail missing. This piece was allegedly found near Hebron, Palestine.

Provenance

Private collection, USA; acquired from Kaufmann's Antiques, Tel Aviv, Israel, 22nd February 1971, found in a tomb in the vicinity of Hebron

Literature

For the form compare John W. Hayes, Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto, 1975), no.113

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