Glass flask decorated with intersecting circles. Culture: Roman. Dimensions: H. 4 1/2in. (11.4cm). Date: 2nd-3rd century A.D..Translucent colorless with pale greenish tinge.Plain rounded rim; upper half of neck funnel-shaped, then cylindrical; horizontal shoulder, slightly pushed in on one side, above vertical collar; spherical body; slightly projecting solid edge to base with uneven concave bottom; no pontil mark. Body blown into a four-part mold of three vertical sections, extending to top of collar, joined to a shallow, disk-shaped base section.On body, sunken relief design of nine interlocking circles with a dot at the center of each circle, bordered above and below by a double row of smaller dots; on bottom, two faint raised circles around a small central knob.Intact; some bubbles; dulling, patchy weathering and iridescence.L. P. di Cesnola mistakenly identified this vase's provenance as Idalion, Cyprus, and published it as such in his "Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collec
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