Roman Blue-Green Glass Baby Feeder, Roman Imperial Period, ca. 3rd century CE
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Made from lovely pale green glass featuring a globular body with an upturned horn-shaped spout, long cylindrical neck, and everted rim.
Such glasses, which were common throughout the eastern Mediterranean region, are often called a "baby feeder", although they have also been described as a guttus, an askos, an oil flask, a blow-pipe or, generally, as a pourer flask. Their use remains uncertain, but the fragility of the material makes it unlikely that they were used in baths or at public functions such as sacrifices. Similarly it is hard to imagine that an infant could be fed from such a vessel, unless it was used to administer medicine. Many consider them flasks for pouring oil into the filling holes of terracotta lamps.
Medium: Glass
Dimensions: Height: 5 inches ( 12.7 centimeters)
Condition: The vessel is intact and in excellent condition.
Provenance: Former collection of the ex-World Bank President, James Wolfensohn, NYC, acquired from Perspective Ltd., Jean-Michel Gozlan, King David Street, Jerusalem, Israel, 1990’s.
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