Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Place of Originpossibly The Levant
Date2nd-1st century BCE
Dimensions6 1/16 × 13/16 × 1 3/4 in. (15.4 × 2.1 × 4.4 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1916.57
Not on View
DescriptionThis unguent bottle is core-formed (amphoriskos); applied handles and base-knob; applied marvered threads; with tooling marks visible on the exterior just below the rim. Blue ground with opaque yellow and opaque turquoise-blue decoration. Narrow, outsplayed rim tooled outward from the neck; rather tall cylindrical neck with distinct upward taper; short, obtuse-angled shoulder; narrow, elongated ovoid body; convex pointed bottom; spherical blue base-knob with a rounded end. Two vertical blue strap handles extend from the shoulder to the upper part of the neck, rising to just above the rim. A marvered opaque yellow thread is attached just below the rim and wound spirally—first in horizontal lines around the neck and shoulder, then tooled into a close-set festoon pattern on the body, and finally in horizontal lines to the base-knob. A marvered opaque turquoise-blue thread is added at the bottom of the neck and mingles with the yellow thread on the body.
Published References"Early Egyptian Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News 29, 1917, p. 352.
Hayes, 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, New York, Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, 1989, cat. no. 170, p. 170.
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
2nd-1st century BCE
2nd-1st century BCE
6th-5th century BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
3rd century BCE
Probably first half of fifth century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
3rd century BCE
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