Shipwreck Sale: Roman 4+ Inch Glass Bottle, Interesting 2-Level Design

This is the largest of this group of Roman glass bottles or vials. It survived the hundreds or thousands of years buried far better than most of the specimens offered here. Interestingly, the structure is more delicate than the others as well. It was meant to sit in some type of holder as you can see from the round bottom; it would not stand easily on its own. In the photo of 4 bottles I leaned it against the backdrop so it would stand.

The color as made is bright and vibrant and for whatever reason, it avoided being enrusted or damaged despite its somewhat fragile construction. It's just the luck of the draw if a glass item was somehow encased inside other items or dirt that protected it and also protected it from the moisture and build up of thick coats of chemicals on top of one another. Please take a close look at the group of 4 in the photo to get an idea of not only the relative size but also how each survived so long in one piece.

The structure/design is unusual in that the top 1-1 1/2 inches are much narrower than the rest and the top part gently slopes into the wider large portion of the bottle. The bottle looks barely 4 inches in the photo with the ruler so that is how I mentioned it in the text, but the angle somewhat distorted the size, which is a bit larger than it looks.

Writing the descriptions for all these listings is dizzying. I'm just working on them and hope to have 100+ listed in the upcoming sale, but doing it right (with several photos and longer than so many typical descriptions from Ebay and most auctions) simply takes a lot of time. AND FYI, this bottle is the largest and arguably the nicest of the several I have for sale.