Agora Object: Agora XXIX, no. 1769 | Dimensions: | | H. 3.1; Diam. 4.2. | | Chronology: | | Late Hellenistic and Roman context | | Deposit: | | D 5:2, south passage | | Published Number: | | AV 29.1769 | | References: | | Object: P 9699
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Medicine Bottle.
Half of rim missing; foot chipped.
Flat underside, pierced underneath. Irregular, angular profile with high shoulder. Vertical rim with groove at junction with body.
Micaceous, pink fabric (10YR 8/4); thin, dull brown glaze on shoulder and inside lip.
For medicine bottles with angular profiles similar to this and 1770, many from early-1st-century contexts, see Δελτ 29, 1973--74, B1 1 [1979], p. 149, pl. 110:γ (Peiraieus); Délos XXVII, D 233, p. 261, pl. 49; Marcadé 1953, B 7369, p. 605, fig. 104:a (Delos); Zapheiropoulou and Hatzidakis 1994, pp. 245--246, pls. 196, 201:β (Delos); Technau 1929, p. 47, fig. 36:5 (Samos); Tarsus I, no. 93, p. 217, fig. 123; Priene, no. 87, p. 425, fig. 528:3; Hershkovitz 1986, no. 3, p. 48, fig. 2:3, pl. 9:G (Masada); Smith 1992 (Palestine).
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