Glass Bottle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Jul 1892
name: label: Donor Name
content: Miss Olive R. Seward
label: Site Name
content: Idalium (Idalion)
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Conical body. Richly and beautifully iridescent in lilac, green, and gold. Rounded bottom. Exhibit, Hall 26, 1976". From 1978 NMNH slide set caption: Glass bottle, iridescent, Cyprus, Roman period.
label: Notes
content: This object was on display in the National Museum of Natural History exhibit "Objects of Wonder", 2017 - 2024. Exhibit label identifies: Glass vessel, Roman, Cyprus, 200 BC – AD 100; Silicon dioxide, copper. Glassmaking manufacturers used minerals to give their glassware different tints. Iron in the sand used to make this glass provided a light aquamarine tint. When the vessel was buried with its owner, natural weathering turned the glass opaque and produced an iridescent finish. The various shades of blue in the shimmering patina come from the chemicals in the original glass, including iron.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Oct 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Cyprus, Europe
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Roman
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 025988
label: USNM Number
content: A154550B-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bottle