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Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)

Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)

Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean, possibly from Syro-Palestinian region
Date2nd-1st century BCE
DimensionsH: 6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/16 in. (3 cm); Diam: 2 3/16 in. (5.6 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.126
Not on View
Collections
  • Glass
Published ReferencesHayes, John W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975, p. 15.

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, Hudson Hills Press in Association with the Toledo Museum of Art, New York, 1989, cat. no. 172, p. 171, repr. (col.) p. 107, drawing, p. 408.

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