Light green squared bottle
2nd-4th century CE
Description
Bottle; heavily indented base, square-sided body, straight shoulder, straight neck, flaring lip. Intact, except for two chips of rim missing, very clean, dirt on bottom, crack along body to base. This piece may not be ancient.
Dimensions
H. 6.9 x Rim diam. 2.4 x w. 3.4 cm (2 11/16 x 15/16 x 1 5/16 in.)
Provenance
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, (by 1978) transfer; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1978.
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