unguentarium

This tubular bottle with a lug handle was made of one colorless and two translucent deep blue elements that were cast separately, then partly ground and polished. These elements were then assembled and fused, and the surface was finished by grinding and polishing. The bottle is a great rarity. No precise parallel for the form is known in glass, although smaller, more slender vessels, also of colorless and deep blue glass, are in the British Museum and the archeological museum at Nicosia, Cyprus. The same color scheme occurs in bowls in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and other collections.