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Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)

Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean, possibly from Rhodes, Greece
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
DescriptionThis amphoriskos features a blue ground decorated with opaque yellow and opaque turquoise-blue threads. It has a broad, inward-sloping rim-disk, a cylindrical neck, an almost right-angled shoulder, and a top-shaped body. The circular blue base-knob has 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 is attached at the edge of the rim-disk. A marvered opaque yellow thread begins on the shoulder and is wound spirally—first in two horizontal lines, then tooled into a zigzag pattern extending to the middle of the body. A wide opaque turquoise-blue thread, also marvered, is added at this point, mingling with the yellow thread. Below this, a marvered opaque yellow thread is wound twice around the body in horizontal lines, and a marvered opaque turquoise-blue thread encircles the edge of the base-knob. Short vertical indentations on the body were caused by the tooling of the zigzags. The vessel is core-formed, with applied rim-disk, handles, and base-knob, as well as applied marvered and unmarvered 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. 101, p. 145.
Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
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Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Late 6th - 5th century BCE
Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE

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