Object Description
A Roman aryballos (oil bottle) blown from translucent yellow glass with applied handles and wheel cut lines to the body. The large globular body sits on a flat circular base, and tapers in at the shoulders to a thin, cylindrical neck with a flattened everted rim. The handles, drawn and tooled, curve gently from the mid-neck to the upper body, and are adorned with a central raised rib that runs vertically down the handle. The vessel is further decorated with incised horizontal bands around the body and neck. There is subtle iridescence across the surface of the glass.
Date: Circa 1st Century AD