Kelsey Museum of Archaeology: Unguentarium

Object Identifier: 1970.03.1028
Object Name: Unguentarium
Lot: Ruthven, Dr. Alexander G.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Glass vessels
Materials: Glass
Length: 2.5
Width: 2.5
Height: 4.3
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Miniature bottle. Free blown and cut in translucent pale blue-green glass. Square pedestal base sloping up and in to square stem. Base badly chipped with traces of a foot remaining at one corner. Body square with deeply cut groove around bottom. Body decorated with tall, narrow triangles in high relief at the four corners, and four tall, narrow shallow relief triangles in center of each face. Top of shoulder has a relief cut square around neck opening. Rim broken away. Vessel covered in milky iridescence.; Cf. Carboni p. 127 #2.29 and Auth p. 170 #230 for vessel of same general shape.
Verbatim Date: 9th-10th C AD
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Countermark: no
Type Category: Artifact

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Unguentarium; Glass