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
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Published References"Early Egyptian Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News 29, 1917, p. 352.
- Glass
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-1st century BCE
2nd-1st century BCE
3rd century BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
Probably first half of fifth century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
3rd century BCE
5th century BCE
Late 6th - 5th century BCE
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