Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean, possibly from Rhodes, Greece
Date5th century BCE
DimensionsH: 3 7/16 in. (8.8 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/16 in. (3 cm); Diam: 15/16 in. (2.4 cm)
MediumCore-formed glass; applied rim-disk and handles; applied marvered and unmarvered threads.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.343
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DescriptionThis small glass bottle has a dark body with white glass threads wrapped around it in several places. It has a wide, flat rim, a short neck, and two small handles. The threads were applied in different ways—some pressed smooth into the surface, others left raised. The bottle was made using a core-forming technique, where molten glass was shaped around a central core.
Published ReferencesGrose, 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. 77, p. 137, repr. (col.) p. 97.
Mid-4th through early 3rd century BCE
Late 6th through 5th century BCE
Late 6th through 5th century BCE
Late 6th - 5th century BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd century BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
Late 6th to early 5th century BCE
3rd through 2nd century BCE
Late 6th through 5th century BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
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