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Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
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
Collections
  • Glass
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.

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