Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean, possibly from Rhodes
DateLate sixth through fifth centuries BCE
DimensionsH: 3 11/16 in. (9.4 cm); Diam: 1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm); Max Diam of Body: 2 in. (5.1 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.139
Not on View
DescriptionAmphoriskos. Dark blue ground with opaque yellow and opaque turquoise-blue decoration. Broad, inward-sloping rim-disk; cylindrical neck; obtuse-angled shoulder; top-shaped body; circular blue base-knob with a convex edge and a small hole on its underside at the center. Two blue vertical strap 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 uneven horizontal lines on the neck and shoulder; below this, three wide opaque turquoise-blue threads and several narrow opaque yellow threads, all marvered, tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern around the middle of the body; below this, an irregular opaque yellow thread is wound horizontally around the lower part of the body; opaque yellow streaks on the base-knob. Core-formed; applied rim-disk, handles, and base-knob; applied marvered and unmarvered threads. 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. 96, p. 143.
4th-3rd century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
late 6th-5th centuries BCE
Late sixth to fifth centuries BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
6th-5th century BCE
Probably first half of fifth century BCE
Late 6th - 5th century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
5th century BCE
5th century BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
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