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Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
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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
Collections
  • Glass
Published ReferencesThe Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, p. 15, ill.

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.

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