Ca. 100-200 AD. Roman. A small glass flask in a beautiful dark-coloured glass palette with yellow tones. The cylindrical body features a pattern of regular indentations in the glass, which would have been added before the glass cooled during the glassblowing process. The neck starts narrower than the body but slowly increases until the mouth, which is the same diameter as the rest of the piece. The base also has a slight conical indentation. Good condition. Glass was often the preferred material for storing toilette oils, perfumes, and medicines in antiquity because it was not porous. The small body and mouth allowed the user carefully to pour and control the amount of liquid dispensed. By the 1st century AD, the technique of glassblowing had revolutionised the art of glass-making, allowing for the production of small medicine, incense, and perfume containers in new forms. These small glass vessels are found frequently at Hellenistic and Roman sites, and the liquids, which filled them, would have been gathered from all corners of the expansive Roman Empire. To find out more about glass objects in the Roman world, Bayley, J., Freestone, I., & Jackson, C. (2015). Glass of the Roman World. Oxford And Philadelphia: Oxbow Books. Size: L:60mm / W:50mm ; 24g. Provenance: From an important London collection of S.A.; previously in a Central London, Mayfair gallery; originally obtained from an old British collection formed in the 1980s