Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean, possibly from Rhodes
Date5th century BCE
DimensionsH: 4 11/16 in. (11.9 cm); Diam: 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm); Max Diam of Body: 1 in. (2.6 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.167
Not on View
DescriptionAlabastron. Dark ground, possibly dark green (appearing black), with opaque yellow and opaque turquoise-blue decoration. Broad horizontal rim-disk; short cylindrical neck; rounded shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body; almost flat bottom. Below the shoulder, two long "black" vertical ring handles with knobbed tails set at different heights on the body. An unmarvered opaque yellow thread attached at the edge of the rim-disk; a second opaque yellow thread and an opaque turquoise-blue thread, both marvered, begun on the neck and wound spirally, at first in almost horizontal lines, then tooled into an even, close-set zigzag pattern from the middle of the handle zone to the bottom, where the threads are again wound in almost horizontal lines to the center of the bottom. Core-formed: applied rim-disk and handles; 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. 84, p. 139-140.
5th century BCE
5th century BCE
5th century BCE
5th century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
late 6th through 5th century BCE
5th century BCE
Late 6th through 5th centuries BCE
Late 6th through 5th centuries BCE
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