Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean or Italy
Date4th-3rd century BCE
DimensionsH: 3 in. (7.6 cm); Diam: 1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm); Max Diam of Body: 15/16 in. (2.4 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.107
Not on View
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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. 128, p. 154-155.Exhibition HistoryCranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, Ancient Egypt, exhibition, no. ex. cat., November 1960-January 1961.- Glass
4th-3rd century BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd centuries BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Late 6th through 5th century BCE
5th century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
6th-5th century BCE
Late 6th through 5th centuries BCE
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