Roman Blue-Green Glass Baby Feeder, Roman Imperial Period, ca. 3rd century CE Amulets - Varia Gallerie Australis

Gallerie Australis

Texas: University of Texas Press

This example is shown as a mummiform figure made from white faience with features carefully highlighted in dark pigment

Provenance: Tom Carson private collection

Masterfully crafted from sheet silver

Roman Blue-Green Glass Baby Feeder, Roman Imperial Period, ca. 3rd century CE Amulets - Varia Gallerie AustralisMade from lovely pale green glass featuring a globular body with an upturned horn shaped spout, long cylindrical neck, and everted rim. Such glasses, which were common throughout the eastern Mediterranean region, are often called a "baby feeder", although they have also been described as a guttus, an askos, an oil flask, a blow pipe or, generally, as a pourer flask. Their use remains uncertain, but the fragility of the material makes it unlikely that