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Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)

Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)

Place of Originpossibly Rhodes, found in Al Fayyūm, Egypt
Date6th-5th century BCE
Dimensions3 1/2 × 2 3/16 × 1 1/8 in. (8.9 × 5.5 × 2.9 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number
1916.53
Not on View
Collections
  • Glass
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. 97, p. 144.

"Early Egyptian Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News 29, 1917, p. 352.

Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Late sixth to fifth centuries BCE
Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
late 6th-5th centuries BCE
Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Late 6th - 5th century BCE
Jar (Amphoriskos)
5th century BCE

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