Unguent Bottle (Aryballos)
Unguent Bottle (Aryballos)
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean, possibly Rhodes
DateLate 6th through 5th centuries BCE
DimensionsH: 2 5/16 in. (5.9 cm); Rim Diam: 1 in. (2.5 cm); Diam: 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.97
Not on View
DescriptionAryballos Blue ground with opaque yellow and opaque turquoise-blue decoration. Broad inward-sloping rim-disk; cylindrical neck; obtuse- to right-angled shoulder; ovoid body; convex pointed bottom. Two blue vertical ring handles with knobbed tails, carelessly formed, extend from the shoulder to the underside of the rim-disk. An unmarvered opaque yellow thread attached at the edge of the rim-disk; a second opaque yellow thread, marvered, begun at the top of the neck and wound spirally, at first in a few horizontal lines, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern to the middle of the body, where a marvered opaque turquoise-blue thread is added, mingling with the yellow thread; below this, opaque yellow and opaque turquoise-blue threads, also marvered, are wound in a few wavy, almost horizontal lines. Core-formed; applied rim-disk and handles; applied marvered and unmarvered threads. Short vertical indentations on the body caused by the tooling of the zigzags.
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. 120, p. 151-152.
Ng, Diana Y., The Art of the Everyday: Objects from Ancient Daily Life, Dearborn, Regents of the University of Michigan-Dearborn, 2019, pp. 96-101, repr. (col.) 97.
Exhibition HistoryDearborn, Michigan, Berkowitz Gallery, University of Michigan, Art of the Everyday: Objects from Ancient Daily Life, Apr. 25-Jul. 5, 2019.Comparative ReferencesSee also Hayes, John W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975, fig. 14, p. 11.
Late 6th through 5th centuries BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
late 6th-5th centuries BCE
Second half of 5th through early 4th centuries BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Late 6th - 5th century BCE
about 350-300 BCE
Late 6th - 5th century BCE
5th century BCE
5th century BCE
mid-late 4th century BCE
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