Glass flask decorated with intersecting circles 2nd-3rd century A.D. Roman 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 vases provenance as Idalion, Cyprus, and published it as such in his "Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection." This incorrect provenance was later repeated by K
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