Glass gold-band mosaic bottle. Culture: Roman. Dimensions: H.: 3 3/16 in. (8.1 cm). Date: 1st half of 1st century A.D..Translucent cobalt blue, honey brown, and bluish green, colorless encasing gold leaf, and opaque white ().Everted, horizontal rim with rounded outer lip; cylindrical neck; sloping shoulder; carinated body with straight side above carination and convex curving side below; slightly concave bottom.Gold-band mosaic pattern formed from a single serpentine length of layered canes formed in the following order: blue, colorless with gold leaf, green, and thin stripes of white; the length is wound three times round body, being fused together across bottom.A single fine horizontal line incised on upper surface of rim near outer edge; a band of two grooves flanking a raised line at junction of shoulder and side; and another band of two grooves flanking a raised line at junction of side and bottom.Intact, except for one weathered chip in rim and two deep weathered chips in s
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Image Number: 4409-17371600Rights ManagedCredit Line:Album/Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY/Album Archivo/SuperStockCollection:Album Archivo Contributor:Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY Model Release:NoProperty Release:NoResolution:3981×3982
