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Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)

Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean, possibly from Syro-Palestinian
Date2nd-1st century BCE
DimensionsH: 6 5/16 in. (16 cm); Rim Diam: 1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm); Diam: 2 1/16 in. (5.2 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.138
Not on View
DescriptionAmphoriskos. Dark yellowish-green ground (appearing opaque black), with opaque yellow and opaque turquoise-blue decoration. Moderately broad rim-disk, uneven and inward-sloping; very tall cylindrical neck; wide obtuse-angled shoulder; uneven ovoid body; convex pointed bottom; short, bulbous base-knob, natural yellowish-green, with an uneven rounded end. Two vertical natural yellowish-green strap handles extend from the shoulder to the upper part of the neck, rising to just above the rim-disk. A marvered opaque yellow thread attached at the edge of the rim-disk and wound spirally, at first in almost horizontal lines around the neck and over the shoulder, then tooled into a carelessly formed, close-set festoon pattern on the body, and finally in horizontal lines to the base-knob; a marvered opaque turquoise-blue thread is added on the neck, mingling with the yellow thread and ending in a single horizontal line above the base-knob. Core-formed 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.

Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
about 2nd century BCE
Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Late 6th - 5th century BCE
Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Late sixth to fifth centuries BCE

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