Object Description
A Roman glass cosmetic tube in dark blue glass; of tubular form with smoothly rounded interior and thick glass walls formed of heavily twisted opaque glass, standing on slightly rounded integral base.
Condition: Complete and intact except for the tip of one handle missing and chip to body. One side with light weathering discolouration to glass.
Circa 5th-6th century A.D.
For similar: see tube 50.1558, page 147; Ancient Glass at the Newark Museum; Susan H. Auth / item 233; The Constable-Maxwell Collection of Ancient Glass; Sotheby 1979.