Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
Place of OriginWestern Asiatic, possibly Mesopotamia
DateLate 8th or 7th century BCE
DimensionsH: 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm); Diam: 1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm)
MediumCore-formed; applied, partly marvered threads.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1961.39
Not on View
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Published ReferencesThe Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, p. 15, ill.
- Glass
Grose, David F., "Ancient Glass," TMA Museum News 20, no. 3, 1978, p. 72, fig. 5.
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. 28, p. 85, repr. (col.) p. 69.
Probably 6th Century BCE
New Kingdom, Eighteenth Dynasty, about 1412-1350 BCE
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, About 1412-1350 BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
18th Dynasty, about 1400-1350 BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Mid-4th through early third centuries BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
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