Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean or Italy
Date4th-early 3rd century BCE
DimensionsH: 5 11/16 in. (14.5 cm); Diam: 1 5/16 in. (3.3 cm); Max Diam of Body: 1 3/16 in. (3 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.131
Not on View
DescriptionAlabastron. Blue ground with opaque white and opaque yellow decoration. Thin, broad horizontal rim-disk, sloping slightly outward; rather tall cylindrical neck; obtuse-angled shoulder; almost straight-sided cylindrical body, tapering inward near the basal angle; shallow convex bottom. Below the shoulder, two small blue lugs, each with a depression on its upper surface, set at differing heights on the body. An unmarvered opaque yellow thread attached at the edge of the rim-disk; an opaque white thread, marvered, begun diagonally on the neck, then wound spirally and tooled, at first into four rows of upright festoons, then into a close-set zigzag pattern, extending to the lower part of the body, where the thread is wound in horizontal lines to the bottom; an opaque yellow thread, marvered, is begun just above the handles and mingles with the white thread in alternating bands to the lowest part of the body. Core-formed; applied rim-disk and lugs; applied marvered and unmarvered threads. Long vertical indentations on the body caused by the tooling of the zigags.
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, New York, Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, 1989, Cat. No. 133, p. 156-157, Repr. (col.) p. 102.
Mid-4th through early 3rd century BCE
4th-3rd century BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
4th-3rd century BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd century BCE
Mid-fourth through early third centuries BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd century BCE
mid 4th-early 3rd centuries BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
4th-3rd century BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd centuries BCE
about 350-300 BCE
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