Alabastron (perfume bottle)

-500–-200

Medium: Core-formed glass
Dimensions: 10.4 x 2.8 cm (width at handles) (4 1/8 x 1 1/8 in.)
Genre: Vessel
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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Greek

About

Alabstron (unguent bottle) with cobalt blue ground and opaque yellow and light blue trail in a feather decoration running spirally down the length of the body. Narrow rim disk with rounded edge; short cylindrical neck; rounded shoulder; cylindrical body tapering slightly inward at the bottom. For similar vessels see: M. Stern. Early Ancient Glass: The Toledo Museum. nos. 162-164.