Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean or Italy
Date4th-3rd century BCE
DimensionsH: 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm); Diam: 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm); Max Diam of Body: 1 5/8 in. (4 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.82
Not on View
DescriptionAlabastron. Cobalt-blue ground with opaque white, opaque yellow, and medium blue decoration. Broad horizontal rim-disk, sloping slightly to the outside; cylindrical neck, tapering upward; distinct, round-angled shoulder; straight-sided but uneven body, tapering upward with the greatest diameter just above the basal angle; uneven, shallow convex bottom. Below the shoulder, two cobalt-blue ring handles, unpierced, with straight vestigial tails. An unmarvered opaque yellow thread attached at the edge of the rim-disk; extending from the shoulder to the basal angle, alternating bands of marvered medium blue, opaque white, and opaque yellow threads, tooled into a close-set feather pattern arranged in six vertical panels, each ending at the bottom in a well-defined loop. Core-formed; applied rim-disk and handles; applied marvered and unmarvered threads.
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. 127, p. 154.
Mid-4th through early 3rd centuries BCE
4th-3rd century BCE
4th-3rd century BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd century BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd century BCE
Mid-4th through early third centuries BCE
4th-3rd century BCE
4th-early 3rd century BCE
about 350-300 BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd centuries BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd century BCE
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