Perfume Bottle
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Name/Title
Perfume BottleEntry/Object ID
11NE-Mi9-147Description
The rim is irregular, uneven, and it is everted then folded up and in. The neck is tubular with a slight constriction near the bottom then outwardly splays at the junction with the shoulders. The shoulders are rounded, transitioning into a squat-bulbous body. The base is concave with a pontil mark. The vessel has a 1.5 cm hole to the base, iridescence, and trace encrustation.Use
Perfume VesselContext
This vessel type, found mostly in northeastern Italy, may have been an early attempt at a candlestick bottle. Perfume vessels first appeared in the first century BCE with a piriform shape, that is a long cylindrical neck with a constriction at its midpoint and a rounded or conical body. The piriform bottle began to evolve in the second half of the first century CE into the candlestick bottle, which possesses a longer cylindrical neck with a constriction at the junction with the body, resembling a candlestick. However, between the piriform bottle and the candlestick bottle was a transitional phase where the constriction moved to the base of the neck and the body became squat and rounded, exemplified by this vessel.Made/Created
Date made
1 CE - 100 CETime Period
Roman ImperialEthnography
Culture/Tribe
Roman