Description

Full glass vessel with spout, teat. The vase has a tall cylindrical, narrow neck and ring-shaped rim. Its body is spherical with a main feature a horizontal projection at about the middle of its height. Vessels of this type are known as "nursing bottles", but their use for breastfeeding babies is disputed mainly due to their fragile - dangerous - material, and as "oilers" for filling clay lamps with oil, while another point of view are interpreted as medical utensils for the instillation of medicinal liquids. It is made with the method of free blowing, a technique created in the Syro-Palestinian region in the 1st century. e.g. and by the middle of the next century it had spread throughout the Roman empire.