Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean, possibly from Rhodes
DateLate 6th through 5th century BCE
DimensionsH: 5 1/16 in. (12.9 cm); Diam: 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.155
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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. 65, p. 133.Comparative ReferencesSee also Hayes, John W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975, no. 17, p. 11.- Glass
6th-5th century BCE
late 6th through 5th century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Late 6th - 5th century BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd centuries BCE
3rd century BCE
Late sixth to fifth centuries BCE
Late 6th - 5th century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
Mid-4th to early 3rd century BCE
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