Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean, possibly from Syro-Palestinian region
Date2nd through mid-1st century BCE
DimensionsH: 5 5/16 in. (13.5 cm); Diam: 15/16 in. (2.4 cm); Max Body Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm); Diam Pad-Base: 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm)
MediumCore-formed glass; applied rim-disk, handles, and pad-base; applied marvered threads.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.345
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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, Hudson Hills Press in Association with the Toledo Museum of Art, New York, 1989, cat. no. 180, pp. 173-174, repr. (col.) p. 108, drawing, p. 408.
- Glass
Arts, P.L.W., Arts, P.L.W., "A Collection of Ancient Glass 500 BC - 500 AD," ANTIEK Lochem, 2000, p. 84.
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
2nd-1st century BCE
Mid-4th to early 3rd century BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd century BCE
2nd through mid- 1st century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
2nd-1st century BCE
3rd century BCE
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