Roman glass baby feeding bottle

2nd - 3rd century AD

€ 875.00 VAT margin scheme

Article code: 24-2411

Roman glass baby or infant feeding bottle. Squat bulbous ribbed body, slightly rounded base with a tall cylindrical neck with a wide spreading mouth and a folded rim. There is a tapering feeding spout to one side of body.

Such bottles are commonly called a baby feeder, although they have also been described as a guttus, askos, oil flask or generally, as a pourer flask.

Height: ± 104,4 mm

Diameter body: ± 77,1 mm (excluding spout)
Condition: intact and in good solid condition, some deposits inside the bottle. Signs of wear consistent with age and use.

Reference:

Weinberg, "Evidence for Glass Manufacture in Ancient Thessaly", American Journal of Archaeology Vol. 66, No. 2 (April 1962), p. 129-133 and pls. 25-28.

Christopher S. Lightfoot, The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art - Ancient Glass (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017), p. 160-162 (182-185).

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Period	Roman
Category	Artefacts
Material	Glass
Country	Roman Empire

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