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Transparent blue-green glass bottle with two curling handles, spherical body, and short neck widening to a rounded, wide lip

Aryballos (oil bottle)

Roman

Intact aryballos (oil flask) in transparent, blue-green glass. The vessel is free blown with a spherical body, short tube neck, and applied dolphin handles. Classification: C. Isings, Roman Glass from Dated Finds (Djakarta: Groningen, 1957), form 61.

Glass

Vessels