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Unguent Bottle (Krateriskos)
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Unguent Bottle (Krateriskos)

Place of OriginEgypt
Date18th Dynasty, about 1400-1350 BCE
DimensionsH: 3 3/16 in. (9.7 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm); Body Diam: 2 7/16 in. (6.6 cm); Base Diam: 1 9/16 in. (4 cm)
MediumCore-formed; applied handles and foot; applied marvered and unmarvered threads.
ClassificationGlass
Object number
1935.55
Not on View
Collections
  • Glass
Published ReferencesLabino, Dominick, Visual Art in Glass, Dubuque, Iowa, 1968, pp. 12-13, fig. 1.

Nolte, Birgit, Die Glasgefasse im alten Aegypten, Munchner Aegyptologische Studien, no. 14, Berlin, 1968, pp. 89-90 and 94, no. 21, pl. 8.

Gunther, Charles F., "How Glass is Made," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News 15, no. 1, 1972, p. 14.

"Art in Glass," The Glass Industry 51, July 1970, p. 315, ill.

D.-L. Jones, "The Toledo Museum's New Glass Gallery," The Glass Club 93/94, March-June 1970, p. 10, ill.

Wittmann, Otto, ed., The Toledo Museum of Art. A Guide to the Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1976, p. 7, fig. 6.

Grose, David F., "Ancient Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News 20, no. 3, 1978, pp. 68, 70-71, fig. 2.

Grose, David F., "The Origins of Early History of Glass, in The History of Glass, eds. Dan Klein and Ward Lloyd, London, 1984, p. 15, ill.

Grose, David F., "Innovation and Change in Ancient Technologies: The Anomalous Case of the Roman Glass Industry," High-technology Ceramics: Past, Present, and Future, pp. 65-79, Ceramics and Civilization, vol. 3, Westerville, Ohio, 1986, pp. 66-67, fig. 1.

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. 1, fig. 67.

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, New York, Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, 1989, Cat. No. 8, p. 61, repr. (col.) p. 41, drawing, p. 397.

Footed Jar
New Kingdom Period
about 1400-1350 BCE
Fragment of Unguent Bottle (Krateriskos)
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, probably the reigns of Amenhotep III - Akhenaten, about 1400 to 1350 BCE
Unguent Bottle (Oinochoe)
Mid 4th-early 3rd BCE
Unguent Bottle (Stamnos)
Late 4th-early 3rd BCE
Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
Mid-4th through early 3rd century BCE
Unguent Bottle (Base-Ring Jug)
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, About 1412-1350 BCE
Mid-fourteenth to late thirteenth century BCE

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