1977.216.1860: Feeding Bottle
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1977.216.1860
- Title
- Feeding Bottle
- Other Titles
- Former Title: Glass vessel with long neck and thin fragmented handle ( flask ? bottle ?)
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 3rd-4th century CE
- Period
- Roman Imperial period
- Culture
- Roman
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/77660
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Yellow-green glass
- Technique
- Free-blown glass
- Dimensions
- H. 10.1 x W. 7.3 x D. 6.3 cm (4 x 2 7/8 x 2 1/2 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Department of the Classics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (by 1977), transfer; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1977.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Department of the Classics, Harvard University
- Accession Year
- 1977
- Object Number
- 1977.216.1860
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Feeding bottle (askos); indented base, ovoid body, long straight neck, narrow mouth, small spout that opens into interior of vessel. Intact; covered in patches of opaque accretions and generally yellow-green iridescence.
Classificaiton: Isings, form 99.
Subjects and Contexts
- Roman Domestic Art
Verification Level
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