| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 2016 16 | |
| Title: | MODERN GLASS MEDICINAL BOTTLE | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Year: | 2016 | |
| Object Number: | 16 | |
| Description: | Cylindrical modern glass medicinal bottle, early machine-made, of uniform thickness and with indented base, squared lip, and narrow mouth. Probably very short homeopathic vial or pill bottle. Offset fine vertical mold seams on heel, body, neck and lip; smooth, possibly fire-polished rim and base. Horizontal mold seam above heel and below lip. Likely cork used as closure. Possibly selenium and/or arsenic used as decolorizer. See Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA) website www.sha.org/bottle/medicinal.htm; www.sha.org/bottle/dating.htm for approx. date. | |
| Writing: | stamp. Two lines embossed on base. First row, centrally aligned: | |
| Material: | Colorless clear glass with rare very small spherical bubbles. | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Complete. Slightly patinated. Embossed letter I very faint. Very faint straw-colored cast to areas of thick glass. | |
| Manufacture: | OT (machine-made) | |
| Weight Description: | 0.015 | |
| Weight: | 0.015 | |
| Period: | Early Modern (1831-1949 AD) | |
| Chronology: | possibly 1912-1920s, according to SHA | |
| Area: | South Stoa | |
| Context: | South Stoa, context 287, LOT 2016 010 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: South Stoa Image: digital 2017 1644 Basket: South Stoa, context 287 |
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