Bulbous Flask (Unguentarium)
Bulbous Flask (Unguentarium)
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean, Syro-Palestine
Date2nd-4th century CE
DimensionsH: 4 5/16 in. (11 cm); Rim Diam: 1 in. (2.6 cm); Body Diam: 2 5/16 in. (5.95 cm)
MediumGlass; free blown; tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.603
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DescriptionClassified as a glass vessel known as a "candlestick unguentarium," this flask is made from transparent natural pale green glass. It was free-blown and tooled from medium thin glass, showing small spherical bubbles in the body and elongated vertical bubbles in the neck. The tubular rim is outsplayed and folded outward, upward, inward, and flattened. The tall, tapering neck narrows slightly at the junction with the hemispherical body, which comprises about one-third of the vessel’s total height. The body is slightly flattened, and the base is flat with a small central depression.
2nd-4th century
Late 1st to mid-2nd century
2nd-4th century CE
Probably first half of second century
probably 2nd century
2nd-4th century CE
probably 2nd century CE
2nd-4th century CE
Probably second century
Late 2nd to mid-3rd century
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