Piriform Bottle (Unguentarium)
Piriform Bottle (Unguentarium)
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Date1st century CE
DimensionsH: 2 3/8 in. (6.1 cm); Diam (rim): 3/4 in. (1.9 cm); Diam (body): 1 11/16 in. (4.3 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown, threads picked up, reinflated and tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.1474
Not on View
DescriptionTranslucent manganese colored glass. Opaque white marbling, most of which appears opaque lighter manganese colored.
Free-blown. No pontil mark.
Triangular rim, folded outward, upward, and inward. Tall cylindrical neck with constriction at its base. Piriform body, more than half the total height, with decorative cut-out collar above base.
Marbled pattern of vertical bands and festoons on body.
CLASSIFICATION: Isings 1957, Forms 8 and 28; Barag 1970, Type 16-1.
1st century CE
1st century CE
1st century CE
Mid-third to mid-fourth centuries
1st century CE
1st century CE
1st century CE (or modern?)
1st century CE
Early to mid-first century CE
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