Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean, possibly from Rhodes
DateLate sixth through fifth centuries BCE
DimensionsH: 3 11/16 in. (9.3 cm); Diam: 1 5/16 in. (3.3 cm); Max Diam of Body: 1 1/4 in (3.2 cm)
MediumCore-formed; applied rim-disk and handles; applied marvered and unmarvered threads.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.332
Not on View
DescriptionSmall alabastron. Blue ground with opaque yellow and opaque turquoise-blue decoration. Broad horizontal rim-disk, unusually thin and uneven on its upper- and undersides; short cylindrical neck; rounded shoulder; fairly broad, straight-sided body with upward taper; convex bottom. Below the shoulder, two blue vertical ring handles with knobbed tails. An unmarvered opaque turquoise-blue thread attached at the edge of the rim-disk; an opaque yellow thread, marvered, begun on the neck and wound spirally, at first in almost horizontal lines, then tooled into a zigzag pattern to the middle of the body, where a second opaque turquoise-blue thread is added, mingling with the yellow; below this, a second narrow opaque yellow thread, marvered, is wound horizontally twice around the body and ending in a loop.
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. 74, p. 136.
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
5th century BCE
Late 6th - 5th century BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd centuries BCE
Mid-4th through early third centuries BCE
Mid-4th to early 3rd century BCE
Late 6th -early 5th century BCE
3rd through 2nd century BCE
New Kingdom, late 18th or 19th Dynasty, about 1400-1225 BCE
Late 6th - 5th century BCE
Membership
Become a TMA member today
Support TMA
Help support the TMA mission