Bottle
3rd-4th century CE
Description
Bottle; slightly indented base, oblate body, flares at neck and mouth. Intact; dirt on interior body, whitish cast overall with some pale opalescent iridescence. Classification: Isings form 104B
Dimensions
9 x 6.2 cm (3 9/16 x 2 7/16 in.)
Provenance
Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were the daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).
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