Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean
DateProbably sixth century, BCE, possibly later
DimensionsH: 4 9/16 in. (11.6 cm); Diam: 1 5/16 in. (3.3 cm); Rim Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm); Max Diam of Body: 1 3/8 in. (3.4 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.104
Not on View
DescriptionAlabastron. Blue ground. Thick, broad horizontal rim-disk, sloping slightly outward, with a rounded edge; very short cylindrical neck with a tooled bulge at its center; rounded shoulder; straight-sided body with pronounced upward taper; shallow, slightly convex bottom. On the upper body, two vertical blue lugs, unpierced, but one with a depression on its side, the other more closely resembling two contiguous blobs of glass. Undecorated. Core-formed; applied rim-disk and handles; tooling marks on the upper- and undersides of the rim-disk.
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. 30, p. 85.
Late 6th - 5th century BCE
4th-3rd century BCE
4th-early 3rd century BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd century BCE
4th-3rd century BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd century BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd centuries BCE
Mid-fourth through early third centuries BCE
6th-5th century BCE
4th-3rd century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
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