Sestertius

Greco-Roman, Antioch

244 - 249 AD

  • Titles Sestertius (Descriptive)
  • Medium bronze, possibly copper
  • Dimensions Overall: 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm)
  • Credit Line The Rose Garland Rives Collection, by museum purchase, 1957.31.26
  • Work Type coin
  • Classification Exchange Media

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Small, roundish bottle, or jar, of blown bluish-green, slightly translucent and iridescent glass with two curved handles and a thin bail handle of a different green glass, with narrow neck, the body decorated with applied, thin glass bands above a thicker, band of darker blue-green glass applied in a zig-zag pattern.
Tall unguentarium, or tear vase or bottle, in the form of a candlestick with a bulbous base and long neck with flared lip of blown glass with iridescent shades of green, gold and purple.