Vessel

Encrusted and craggy, this little bottle looks fresh from the ground.

This blown glass vessel of the Islamic period is Islamic, and dates to the 7th century. Glassblowing, in which a gather of molten glass is shaped by air from a blowpipe, was developed in the Mediterranean region in the first century BCE. Small bottle with a short neck, a thick rolled mouth and a cylindrical body. Thick crusty deposits in black, tan and gray cover nearly all of the surface, hiding whatever shine once lay beneath. It is 1 inches wide, 1 deep and 2 high.

Rough exterior, with something ancient underneath.