Amphoriskos
Amphoriskos
Place of OriginAncient Rome
Date3rd century BCE
DimensionsH: 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm); Rim Diam: 7/8 in. (2.2 cm); Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.109
Not on View
DescriptionUnguentarium. Cobalt-blue ground with opaque yellow (appearing orangish) decoration. Short horizontal rim-disk with a rounded edge; tall cylindrical neck; obtuse-angled shoulder; ovoid body; pointed bottom; cobalt-blue outsplayed foot, uneven and slightly convex on its underside. Below the shoulder, two upright, circular cobalt-blue disk handles, each folded upward in half. A marvered opaque yellow thread begun at the bottom of the neck and wound spirally, at first in horizontal and wavy lines, then in a zigzag over the shoulder and around the middle of the body, and finally in a few horizontal lines to the bottom of the vessel. Core-formed; applied rim-disk, handles, and foot; applied marvered threads. Pronounced vertical indentations on the body caused by the tooling of the zigzags.
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. 160, p. 166-167.
3rd century BCE
3rd century BCE
3rd century BCE
Late 6th - 5th century BCE
late 6th-5th centuries BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd centuries BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd centuries BCE
3rd century BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd centuries BCE
Probably first half of 5th century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
5th century BCE
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