Green glass aryballos, Roman, 1st-3rd century A.D.

Squat globular body of greenish glass; with cylindrical neck and flat bottom, two handles applied on shoulder and neck. Wide rim, folded outward, backward, inward and flattened.

Provenance
Art market, London, 1978
Private collection, Switzerland, acquired from the above

Publication
Gli atleti di Zeus. Lo sport nell'antichità, Mendrisio 2009, p.132, op. 70

Exhibition
Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, from 1999-2010

Literature
For a similar piece see David Whitehouse, Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, Vol. I, no. 35