Unguentarium
Unguentarium
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Date1st-2nd century CE
DimensionsH: 2 31/32 in. (7.5 cm); Rim Diam: 13/16 in. (2.1 cm); Diam: 2 5/16 in. (5.9 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown and tooled, with spiral trailed thread decoration.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.505
Not on View
DescriptionMedium thin glass. Fabric cannot be determined because of weathering.
Translucent manganese colored glass. Opaque white thread.
Free-blown. No pontil mark. Added thread.
Everted rim, rounded in flame with tool mark on interior. Tall thin tapering neck with curved transition to shoulder. Squat bulbous body. Flattened base.
Approximately 17 revolutions of thin opaque white thread wound from center of base where it forms a closed loop to halfway up the neck. A small lump of opaque white glass on middle of neck possibly represents the end of the trail.
Published ReferencesHayes, John W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975, p. 53, (included as a parallel to his no. 112).Comparative ReferencesSee also Stern 1977, nos. 5, 6 for discussion and dated parallels (but avoid the confusing term colorband in this context. Parallels: Smith 1957, no. 319 (ill.) acq. in Syria (color not mentioned); Dusenbery 1967, nos. 16, 17 (figs. 17, 18): three spherical thread-wound bottles from a Samothracian burial, discovered together with bottles decorated with embedded thread and core glass amphorisk, late type. V.Saldern 1974, no. 648 (ill.), oblate body, and nos. 645, 646 with spherical body, add no information about type, although they are valid parallels.
1st-2nd Century CE
Sixth to early seventh century
Sixth to early seventh century
1st-2nd Century CE
First half of the first century CE
First half of the first century CE
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