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Description: | A fragment of the body of a square glass bottle dating to the late first or second century AD. The fragment is right-angled and comprises part of the concave base. The glass is blue-green in colour and contains small trapped air bubbles.Blue-green square bottles were manufactured in very large numbers in the Roman world during the later first and second centuries AD. They were produced in a wide range of sizes, and functioned primarily as containers for the transport and storage of liquid to semi-solid foodstuffs, though larger specimens were sometimes reused as cremation urns (Jennifer Price, 'Glass', in R.P.J. Jackson and T.W. Potter, Excavations at Stonea, Cambridgeshire 1980-85 (London: British Museum Press, 1996), p. 394, Cf. figs. 132-4. nos 61-71 for type.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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