Spindle-Shaped Bottle (Pointed Unguentarium)
Spindle-Shaped Bottle (Pointed Unguentarium)
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean (Syro-Palestinian)
Date1st-2nd century CE
DimensionsH: 4 1/16 in. (10.3 cm); Rim Diam: 3/4 in. (1.9 cm); Body Diam: 1 1/16 in. (2.8 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown, tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.552
Not on View
DescriptionThin glass. A few small spherical bubbles in body and vertically elongated bubbles in neck.
Light blue; flared rim; cylindrical neck, constricted slightly at bottom; oval body with pointed bottom.
Translucent to transparent grayish blue (near 5 PB 5/2).
Translucent to transparent grayish blue (near 5 PB 5/2). Thin glass. A few small spherical bubbles in body and vertically elongated bubbles in neck.
Free-blown.
Rim folded outward, upward, and inward. Cylindrical neck with constriction at its base. Elongated ovoid body with solid pointed base.
CLASSIFICATION Isings 1957, Form 9 A
1st century CE
4th century CE
1st century CE
2nd century
5th-6th century CE
Probably late third or fourth century
Probably fifth century
Fourth or Sixth Century
2nd-4th century CE
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