Roman Blue-Green Glass Baby Feeder, Roman Imperial Period, ca. 3rd century CE Medium - Copper are combined with twenty-one carnelian

are combined with twenty-one carnelian beads that are either biconical or of faceted spherical form ranging from a deep red to a red-orange hue

As with other creatures sacred to particular deities

Gloria’s work has increased in scale and precision in recent years

Remains on white collection label on base

or as a human being with the head of a ram (Herod

Roman Blue-Green Glass Baby Feeder, Roman Imperial Period, ca. 3rd century CE Medium - Copper are combined with twenty-one carnelianMade 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