Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean, possibly from Rhodes
DateProbably first half of fifth century BCE
DimensionsH: 3 5/16 in. (8.4 cm); Diam: 15/16 in. (2.4 cm); Max Diam of Body: 2 3/16 in. (5.5 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.132
Not on View
DescriptionCobalt-blue ground with opaque yellow and opaque turquoise-blue decoration. Broad, inward-sloping rim-disk; rather tall cylindrical neck; obtuse-angled shoulder, straight-sided, top-shaped body; conical cobalt-blue base-knob, flat on its underside with a small hole at the center. Two cobalt-blue vertical handles extend from the shoulder to the top of the neck. An unmarvered opaque turquoise-blue thread attached at the edge of the rim-disk; an opaque yellow thread, marvered, begun on the neck and wound spirally in horizontal lines around the neck and shoulder; below this, three wide opaque turquoise-blue threads, with several narrow opaque yellow threads, all marvered, tooled into zigzag pattern around the middle of the body; below this, an opaque yellow and an opaque turquoise-blue thread, both marvered, are each wound horizontally once around the lower part of the body; a marvered opaque yellow thread is wound around the edge of the base-knob. Core-formed; applied rim-disk, handles, and base-knob; applied marvered and unmarvered threads.
Published ReferencesHayes, John W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, p. 9.
Grose, 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. 108, p. 147, Repr. (col.) p. 99.
Puma, Richard Daniel de, Art In Roman Life: Villa to Grave, Rome, L'erma di Bretschneider, 2009, p. 96, no. 109.
4th-3rd century BCE
late 6th-5th centuries BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Late 6th - 5th century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Late sixth to fifth centuries BCE
6th-5th century BCE
5th century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
5th century BCE
Late 4th-early 3rd BCE
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