Touch the ancient world – own a piece of history – but remember it belongs to all humanity
Touch the ancient world – own a piece of history – but remember it belongs to all humanity
$400.00
Colorless, with light blue-green tinge, transparent. Tubular, swelling out at bottom to form a conical body, base wide, hollowed; tooling-mark halfway up the body. Tubular neck with constriction; spreading rim with flattened fold on top. Creamy crust, variegated iridescence. Intact.
H. 5.8″ (14.8 cm).
For similar published unguentaria see:
Hayes J. W. Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum. Toronto, 1975, cat. 262;
Crowfoot G.M. Samaria-Sebaste III, The objects from Samaria, London, 1957, 409, fig. 94.1;
Calvi, M.C. I Vetri Romani del Museo di Aquileia, 1968, nos. 284-286, pl. m,1.
Fleming, Roman Glass. Reflections of everyday life, 1997, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Antropology, pl. 49.