Object type
bottle
Culture/period
Roman world
Materials
glass
Technique
glassblowing, moulding
Mint
Production date
1 / 100
Museum
Museu de Badalona
Current location
Exposició permanent
Archaeological site
Township
Badalona (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Barcelona, Barcelonès)
Dimensions
26 x 19 cm
Description
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Glass bottle with a translucent greenish hue. The body is square and elongated, the cylindrical neck is short and the rim is out-curving and straight. The tape handle is wide and grooved. It has a flat base. Isings Form 50B. It is one of the few whole bottles found in Baetulo.
In the mid- first century BC, Rome already dominated much of the eastern Mediterranean, and many glass artisans settled in Rome and other parts of the Western empire, where the use of glass tableware, a luxury product, began to become popular.
The innovative technique of blown glass making allowed graceful forms to be created, usually inspired by metal prototypes. Moreover, the lightness, transparency and elegance of glass containers contributed to their gradual increase on the Roman table.
The colour of the glassware was also innovative, of which emerald green and royal blue peacock the most common, followed by blue and dark aquamarine blue. Yellow tones have also been documented in Baetulo.
It seems that these bottles do not appear in the Iberian Peninsula before 70 AD and became popular in the period Flavian period, were common in the 2nd-3rd centuries AD, and disappeared in the fourth century AD.
Although not very abundant, they are to be found in the Iberian Peninsula, Gaul, Italy and Germany. They were used for serving liquids at the table, especially wine.
© Museu de Badalona
Omeka ID
1884