bottle
- Museum number
- 99433
- Description
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Plain glass bottle with pear-shaped body and pinched in neck; free blown; asymmetrical profile; finished pontil mark; light pincer marks at neck/shoulder junction; interior neck diaphragm; light green; opaque all-over light brownish weathering layer with partially visible blowing spirals.
- Production date
- 3rdC-7thC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 1.35 - 1.75 centimetres (pontil)
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Height: 2.35 - 2.70 centimetres (neck-finish height)
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Diameter: 0.80 centimetres (resting point)
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Diameter: 2.55 centimetres (rim, interior)
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Diameter: 2.13 inches
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Height: 7.90 centimetres
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Height: 3.25 inches
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Volume: 60 millilitres (capacity at neck diaphragm)
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Volume: 65 millilitres (full capacity)
- Curator's comments
- Possibly used to contain perfume or ointment.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
G52/IRAN/26, from official opening 17/11/95 until 15/12/05.
G49/IRAN/26/28, 16 Jun-23 Dec 1994.
- Condition
- Complete; opaque all-over light brownish weathering layer.
- Acquisition date
- 1904
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 99433
- Registration number
- 1904,1009.466
