Unguent Bottle (Unguentarium)
Unguent Bottle (Unguentarium)
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean or Italy
Date3rd century BCE
DimensionsH: 4 in. (10.1 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/8 in. (2.6 cm); Diam: 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm); Base Diam: 1 in. (2.5 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.110
Not on View
DescriptionUnguentarium. Cobalt-blue ground with opaque yellow (appearing orangish) and opaque white decoration. Thick, moderately broad horizontal rim-disk with a rounded edge; tall cylindrical neck; obtuse-angled shoulder; ovoid body; pointed bottom; tall cobalt-blue outsplayed foot with a deep cavity on its underside. A partly marvered opaque yellow thread and a marvered opaque white thread begun near the top of the neck and wound spirally, at first in horizontal lines, then diagonally across the shoulder and on the body, where both are tooled into a shallow horizontal zigzag pattern, then into almost horizontal lines around the middle of the body. Core-formed; applied rim-disk and foot; applied partly marvered and marvered 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. 158, p. 166, repr. (col.) p. 106.
3rd century BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd centuries BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd centuries BCE
3rd century BCE
3rd century BCE
3rd century BCE
3rd century BCE
Late 6th - 5th century BCE
late 6th through 5th century BCE
Probably first half of 5th century BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd century BCE
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