Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean or Italy
Date4th-3rd century BCE
DimensionsH: 3 7/16 in. (8.7 cm); Diam: 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm); Max Diam of Body: 1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.174
Not on View
DescriptionSmall alabastron. Blue ground with opaque yellow decoration. Broad horizontal rim-disk; short cylindrical neck; narrow, obtuse-angled shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body, tapering upward; shallow, slightly convex bottom. Just below the shoulder, two blue vertical ring handles, both unpierced. An unmarvered opaque yellow thread attached at the edge of the rim-disk; a second opaque yellow thread, marvered, begun on the neck and tooled into a shallow, close-set zigzag pattern to the basal angle. Core-formed; applied rim-disk and handles; applied marvered and unmarvered threads.
Published ReferencesHayes, John W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975, pp. 9-10.
Grose, 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. 139, p. 158.
4th-3rd century BCE
4th-early 3rd century BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd centuries BCE
Late 6th - 5th century BCE
Mid-4th through early third centuries BCE
4th-3rd century BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
5th century BCE
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