Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean or Italy
DateMid-4th through early 3rd century BCE
DimensionsH: 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm); Rim Diam: 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm); Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.178
Not on View
Collections
Published ReferencesWittmann, Otto, ed., The Toledo Museum of Art. A Guide to the Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1966, p. 2, ill.
- Glass
Riefstahl, Rudolf M., "The Complexities of Ancient Glass," Apollo 86, 1967, p. 430, fig. 5.
The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, p. 19, ill.
Katz, Herbert and Marjorie Katz, Museum Adventures: An Introduction to Discovery, New York, 1969, p. 92, ill.
Hayes, John W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975, p. 13.
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. 124, p. 153, repr. (col.) p. 101.
Comparative ReferencesSee also Auth, Susan H., Ancient Glass at the Newark Museum, 1976, fig. 11 (for shape and size); and fig. 26 (for festoon pattern of trailed threads).
Late 4th-early 3rd BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd centuries BCE
Mid-4th to early 3rd century BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd century BCE
Mid 4th-early 3rd BCE
4th-early 3rd century BCE
about 350-300 BCE
3rd century BCE
about 350-275 BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
late 6th through 5th century BCE
5th century BCE
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