Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean, possibly from Rhodes
DateLate sixth to fifth centuries BCE
DimensionsH: 3 1/8 in. (7.8 cm); Diam: 1 3/16 in. (3 cm); Max Diam of Body: 2 1/6 in. (5.2 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.147
Not on View
DescriptionAmphoriskos. Blue ground with opaque yellow and opaque turquoise-blue decoration. Broad, inward-sloping rim-disk; cylindrical neck; almost right-angled shoulder; top-shaped body; circular blue base-knob with an uneven rounded edge. Two blue vertical strap handles extend from the shoulder to the upper part of the neck. A partly marvered opaque turquoise-blue thread streaked with opaque yellow attached at the edge of the rim-disk; an opaque yellow thread, marvered, begun on the shoulder and wound spirally, at first in two horizontal lines, then tooled into a zigzag pattern to the middle of the body, at which point a wide opaque turquoise-blue marvered thread is added, mingling with the yellow thread; below this, an opaque yellow thread, marvered, is wound horizontally twice around the body; a marvered opaque turquoise-blue thread is wound around the edge of the base-knob. Core-formed; applied rim-disk, handles, and base-knob; applied marvered and unmarvered threads. Short 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. 101, p. 145.Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
late 6th-5th centuries BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
4th-3rd century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Late 6th - 5th century BCE
5th century BCE
3rd century BCE
6th-5th century BCE
3rd century BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
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