This object is a fragment of a cylindrical glass bottle neck with remains of the adjoining shoulder, around which a clay cuff has been placed. On this cuff there are eleven seal impressions with portraits.
While the depictions on nine smaller, oval impressions can no longer be identified, the two larger, round impressions reveal portraits of Roman emperors - Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius - as well as the date LIB. If the reading is correct, the seal impressions can be dated to the year 12 of Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius. If it is the Egyptian year, it means 148/149 AD (AVS).
Former Collection Friedrich Wilhelm von Bissing
