1st century A.D. With a piriform body with a dimple base, a long tubular neck with an everted rim. Cf. Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol.1, New York, 1997, item 210, for type. 194 grams, 18.2 cm (7 1/8 in.).

From an important London, UK, collection 1980-2020.

The toilet bottle corresponds to the Isling Form 28a or Vessberg flask type A.III.a. The transparent greyish green glass suggests that the object belongs to the Hayes' fabric 2 of Cypriot blown glass.

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