2500 Year Old Roman Perfume Bottle

[Mayhem]

Check out this find. Mayhem

 

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Another view.

 

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Another view.

 

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And of course the pontil.

 

[Sir.Bottles]

Nice!! Some has pontil scar & some not! but I don't think it's 2500 yo, the oldest glass is from 100AD-300AD.

 

[Steve/sewell]

Nice, find looks original,some of these are being faked now pretty good. ABN Forum member Ajohn has a good collection of old Biblical glass. As for the first blown vessels Just a little earlier Leonard. In the mid-first century B.C., the technique of glassblowing was invented in the Assyrian-Palestinian region both free-blown and mold-blown vessels were subsequently produced. There has been quite a bit of Roman glass found around east London including this http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090430092235.htm This page took a long time to load but well worth it.
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-08/10/italian-shipwreck These jars are slightly older then the Crowleytown Masons[8D]

 

[Steve/sewell]

Here you go this loads much quicker http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/5W053M1x_A0?fs=1&hl=en_GB ....For all of you divers on the site here.....How would you had liked to discover this!!!

 

[GuntherHess]

looks sort of like this one but it has a malformed lip and no patina
http://www.trocadero.com/stores/artemisgallery/items/1171571/item1171571.html

do you have any documentation or provenance for it?

 

[Steve/sewell]

Nice Matt,I had found a dealer in London once who had a large web site full of Roman glass found in and around London.

 

[GuntherHess]

Most of the Roman items these days seem to be coming out of places like Romania.