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
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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.
- Glass
"Early Egyptian Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News 29, 1917, p. 352.
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
4th-3rd century BCE
Late sixth to fifth centuries BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
late 6th-5th centuries BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Late 6th - 5th century BCE
5th century BCE
Probably first half of fifth century BCE
5th century BCE
5th century BCE
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