Glass Bottle

This bottle is part of a group of glass objects produced at the beginning of Islam, marking a transition with Roman glassblowing techniques in the eastern Mediterranean. Blown with translucent yellow glass, it is composed of a globular body, an elongated neck and a splayed mouth. The upper part of the body is decorated with a thin trail of glass applied into a spiral with one trail that was tooled to create an arching motif with small protruding dots. The latter motif is quite common in late Roman objects from the 4th - 5th centuries CE.