Glass hexagonal jug 1st century A.D. Roman Colorless with translucent purple streak from rim to bottom, with colorless handle.Tubular rim, folded out, round, and into mouth; concave cylindrical neck; sloping, rounded shoulder; straight-sided hexagonal body, expanding downward; convex undercurve; flat circular bottom; strap handle attached in two large ribs to shoulder and top edge of body above division between panels 5 and 6 (below), drawn up and slightly out, then curved in, and pressed on to top of neck and underside of rim, with projecting flattened thumb rest above.On shoulder, frieze of indistinct downturned tongues; on body, six rectangular panels, with vertical raised edges, containing objects associated with the Dionysiac cult: 1. crossed, double-ended thyrsi; 2. a footed jug with spout to left and high handle to right; 3. a footed amphora with high handles; 4. a syrinx (pan pipes); 5. a circular object with central protruding boss (a phiale mesomphalos or, perhaps, a cymbal);