Toilet Bottle
1st century AD (made)
| Place of origin |
Hexagonal bottle with a palaestra-related object depicted on each face in relief, including a discus, a strigil, a wreath and an amphora.
The bottle is weathered due to archaeological burial.
The bottle is weathered due to archaeological burial.
Object details
| Categories | |
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | mould-blown |
| Brief description | Glass toilet bottle, probably Syria, 1-100 AD |
| Physical description | Hexagonal bottle with a palaestra-related object depicted on each face in relief, including a discus, a strigil, a wreath and an amphora. The bottle is weathered due to archaeological burial. |
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| Styles | |
| Object history | Bought by the Museum for 30l. |
| Historical context | For a discussion of a sinilar object see, C. Lightfoot, 'A Roman glass flask in Gazientep Museum', Anatolian Studies, XXXV 1985, pp. 223-229, ill. pl. XX c |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Other number | 8135 - Glass gallery number |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 1015-1868 |
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| Record created | December 13, 1997 |
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