SPECIAL MARKED DOWN Roman Glass Bottle, Heavily Encrusted

This Roman Glass bottle doesn't have all the character and color of others in this sale that follow, but it still is an interesting small (2+ inches) bottle. It has so much encrustation and perhaps environmental damage that it is difficult to see and appreciate design features such as the ribs around the full circumference on the lower half.

I do not know what the white chalky encrustation is but assume it is the result of some type of chemicals in the soil where it was buried for as many as 2,000+ years. If you stop to consider that this bottle was hand blown by a Roman artisan 2,000 years ago, shaped and designed and ultimately used for many years for perfume or something else, then lost to the soil for nearly 2,000 years. The white at the base of the neck is flaking and could have cracks there or even perhaps an old repair that we cannot see.