Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean, possibly Syro-Palestinian region
Date2nd through mid-1st century BCE
DimensionsH: 5 15/16 in. (15.1 cm); Rim Diam: 15/16 in. (2.4 cm); Diam: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.130
Not on View
DescriptionAmphoriskos. Blue ground streaked with opaque red, with opaque white and opaque yellow decoration. Narrow horizontal rim-disk, uneven and inward-sloping; tall cylindrical neck; short obtuse-angled shoulder; narrow, elongated ovoid body; almost pointed bottom; small, rounded blue-green base-knob with an uneven end. Two vertical colorless strap handles extend from the shoulder to the upper part of the neck, rising to just below the rim-disk. An opaque white and an opaque yellow thread, both marvered, attached at the edge of the rim-disk and wound spirally, mingling with one another, at first in almost horizontal lines around the neck and shoulder, then tooled into a carelessly formed feather pattern on the body, and finally in horizontal lines to just above the base-knob. Core-formed; applied rim-disk, handles, and base-knob; applied 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. 173, p. 171.
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
2nd-1st century BCE
2nd-1st century BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
about 2nd century BCE
3rd century BCE
3rd century BCE
3rd century BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
Late 6th - 5th century BCE
2nd-1st century BCE
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