Ca. 100-300 AD.A glass flask with a spherical body, a short funnel-shaped neck and a wide, flanged profile mouth. At the height of its popularity and usefulness in Rome, glass was present in nearly every aspect of daily life from a lady's morning toilette to a merchant's afternoon business dealings to the evening 'cena' (dinner). Glass was often the preferred material for storing toilette oils, perfumes, and medicines in antiquity because it was not porous. These glass vessels are found frequently at Hellenistic and Roman sites, and the liquids which filled them (perfumes, oils, medicines) would have been gathered from all corners of the expansive Roman Empire. To learn more about Roman world glass objects, see Bayley, J., Freestone, I., & Jackson, C. (2015). Glass of the Roman World. Oxford And Philadelphia: Oxbow Books. Size: L:73mm / W:60mm ; 35g Provenance: Private London collection, pre-2000s.