Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean, possibly from Rhodes
Date5th century BCE
DimensionsH: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm); Rim Diam: 7/8 in. (2.2 cm); Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.148
Not on View
DescriptionThis small amphoriskos has a light blue ground with decoration in opaque yellow and opaque turquoise-blue. It features a short, inward-sloping rim-disk, a cylindrical neck, an obtuse-angled shoulder, and a top-shaped body. The circular light blue base-knob is uneven, with a small hole at its center. Two vertical strap handles of the same light blue glass extend from the shoulder to the middle of the neck. A partly marvered opaque yellow thread is attached at the edge of the rim-disk. A second opaque yellow thread and an opaque turquoise-blue thread, both marvered, begin at the junction of the neck and shoulder and are wound spirally in nearly horizontal lines down to the base-knob. A partly marvered opaque yellow thread is wound around the edge and underside of the base-knob. The vessel is core-formed, with applied rim-disk, handles, and base-knob, and applied marvered threads.
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. 109, p. 147, Repr. (col.) p. 99.
Late sixth to fifth centuries BCE
4th-3rd century BCE
Late 6th - 5th century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
Probably first half of fifth century BCE
5th century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
6th-5th century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
2nd-1st century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
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