Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean, possibly Syro-Palestinian region
Date2nd through mid-1st century BCE
DimensionsH: 5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm); Rim Diam: 1 5/16 in. (3.3 cm); Diam: 2 13/16 in. (7.1 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.137
Not on View
Collections
Published ReferencesLuckner, Kurt, "Greek Gold Jewelry," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, 17, 1974, pp. 4-5, fig. 2.
- Glass
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. 169, p. 169-170.
2nd-1st century BCE
5th century BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
2nd-1st century BCE
2nd-1st century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
3rd century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Probably first half of fifth century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
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