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Fragment of Unguent Bottle (Krateriskos)

Place of OriginEgypt
DateNew Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, probably the reigns of Amenhotep III - Akhenaten, about 1400 to 1350 BCE
Dimensions1 1/8 x 2 3/8 x 1/8 in. (2.9 x 6 x 0.3 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.171
Not on View
DescriptionFragment of rim and side of krateriskos. Medium turquoise-blue ground with opaque white and opaque yellow decoration. Short horizontal rim with a rounded edge; vestiges of tall cylindrical neck. An opaque white thread and an opaque yellow thread, both marvered, attached to the upperside of the rim and tooled into a tall, highly uneven festoon pattern over the rim and on the neck. Core-formed; applied marvered 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. 12, p. 62-63, repr. (col.) p. 43.
Footed Jar
New Kingdom Period
about 1400-1350 BCE
Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
Mid-4th through early 3rd century BCE
Unguent Bottle (Oinochoe)
Mid 4th-early 3rd BCE
Unguent Bottle
Mid-fourteenth to late thirteenth century BCE
Unguent Bottle (Oinochoe)
Mid-4th through early 3rd centuries BCE
Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
2nd through mid- 1st century BCE
Unguent Bottle (Stamnos)
Late 4th-early 3rd BCE

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