Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean or Italian
Date3rd century BCE
DimensionsH: 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm); Rim Diam: 15/16 in. (2.4 cm); Diam: 1 7/16 in. (3.7 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.111
Not on View
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Published ReferencesHayes, John W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975, p. 14.
- Glass
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. 145, p. 160-161.
Comparative ReferencesSee also von Saldern, Axel, et al., Gläser Der Antike, Sammlung Oppenländer, Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1974, fig. 208, p. 77.
3rd century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Late sixth to fifth centuries BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Late 6th - 5th century BCE
5th through early 4th centuries BCE
late 6th-5th centuries BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
2nd-1st century BCE
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