Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean
DateFirst century BCE
DimensionsH: 3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm.); Diam: 9/16 in. (1.4 cm)
MediumGold-band alabastron; assembled from lengths of cane and cast, probably around a rod; rotary-polished on the exterior.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1951.406
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Published ReferencesRiefstahl, Rudolf M., "Ancient and Near Eastern Glass," TMA Museum News 4, no. 2, 1961, p. 34, ill.
- Glass
Grose, David F., "Innovation and change in ancient technologies: The anomalous case of the Roman glass industry," in High-technology ceramics, Westerville, OH, 1986, p. 73, fig. 12, p. 75.
Grose, David F., Early Ancient Glass: Core-Formed, Rod-Formed, and Cast Vessels and Objects from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Roman Empire, 1600 B.C. to A.D. 50, Hudson Hills Press in Association with the Toledo Museum of Art, New York, 1989, cat. no. 225, p. 208, drawing, p. 412.
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
First century BCE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Second to mid-first century BCE
Second to mid-first century BCE
late 6th through 5th century BCE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
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