Unguent Bottle (Unguentarium)
Unguent Bottle (Unguentarium)
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean or Italy
Date3rd century BCE
DimensionsH: 3 9/16 in. (9 cm); Rim Diam: 1 in. (2.5 cm); Diam: 1 3/16 in. (3 cm); Base Diam: 1 in. (2.6 cm)
MediumCore-formed; applied rim-disk, handles, and foot; applied marvered threads.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.333
Not on View
DescriptionUnguentarium. Cobalt-blue ground with opaque white and opaque yellow (appearing orangish) decoration. Thick, moderately broad horizontal rim-disk, sloping slightly to the outside, with a rounded edge; tall cylindrical neck with downward taper; obtuse-angled shoulder; ovoid body; pointed bottom; tall cobalt-blue outsplayed foot, almost flat on its underside. Below the shoulder, two upright, circular cobalt-blue disk handles. An opaque white thread and an opaque yellow thread, both marvered, begun at the edge and underside of the rim-disk and wound diagonally in horizontal lines across the neck; the white thread is drawn over the shoulder, then tooled into a zigzag pattern around the middle of the body, where another opaque yellow thread, marvered, is added and mingles with it; both are wound in horizontal lines around the middle of the body.
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. 159, p. 166, repr. (col.) p. 106.
3rd century BCE
3rd through 2nd century BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
Late 6th - 5th century BCE
Mid-4th to early 3rd century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
Mid-4th through early third centuries BCE
3rd century BCE
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