Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
Unguent Bottle (Alabastron)
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean, possibly from Rhodes
DateLate sixth through fifth centuries BCE
DimensionsH: 3 13/16 in. (9.7 cm): Diam: 1 5/16 in. (3.3 cm): Max Diam of Body: 1 5/16 in. (3.4 cm)
MediumCore-formed; applied rim-disk and handles; applied marvered and unmarvered threads. Vertical indentations on the body caused by the tooling of the zigzags.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.336
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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. 71, p. 135, repr.- Glass
Late 6th - 5th century BCE
3rd century BCE
3rd through 2nd century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Mid-4th to early 3rd century BCE
New Kingdom, late 18th or 19th Dynasty, about 1400-1225 BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
Mid-4th through early 3rd centuries BCE
5th century BCE
Mid-4th through early third centuries BCE
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