Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Unguent Bottle (Amphoriskos)
Place of OriginEastern Mediterranean, possibly Syro-Palestinian region
Date2nd through mid-1st century BCE
DimensionsH: 5 3/8 in. (13.6 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/16 in. (3 cm); Diam: 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm)
MediumCore-formed; applied rim-disk, handles, and pad-base; applied marvered threads.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.347
Not on View
DescriptionAmphoriskos. Light blue ground with opaque white and opaque yellow decoration. Moderately broad rim-disk, uneven and inward-sloping; short cylindrical neck; vestigial shoulder; straight-sided fusiform body; circular colorless pad-base, uneven and flat on its underside, with a rounded edge. Two vertical colorless (yellowish tinge) s-shaped handles extend from the upper body to the underside of the rim-disk, joined to the neck near its bottom, and rising to the rim-disk. An opaque white and an opaque yellow thread, both marvered, attached to the upperside and edge of the rim-disk and wound spirally, at first in a few horizontal lines around the neck, then tooled into a feather pattern over most of the body, and finally in a few horizontal lines to just above the pad-base.
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. 181, p. 174.
Arts, P.L.W., "A Collection of Ancient Glass 500 BC - 500 AD," ANTIEK Lochem, 2000, p. 84.
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
3rd century BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
Mid-4th to early 3rd century BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
2nd-1st century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
2nd-1st century BCE
2nd through mid- 1st century BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
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