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Egyptian Near Eastern

Small Perfume Bottle (Amphoriskos), 500s BCE-300s BCE

Now On View

Description

Maker

  • Unknown

Culture

Egyptian

Title

Small Perfume Bottle (Amphoriskos)

Year

500s BCE-300s BCE

Medium

Glass, sandcore

Dimensions

Height: 7.9 cm (3 1/8 inches)

Type

  • Glass

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke

Object Number

06.026

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Glass from the Museum's Collection

January 17, 1973 - March 10, 1974

Ancient Greek and Roman Galleries

This tiny Greek cosmetic bottle (unguentarium) was likely made in Egypt or Palestine using the core-forming technique. First, a core was molded into the basic shape using sand, dung, and clay. Then, this core was dipped into molten glass and rolled on a flat surface to smooth and slowly cool the surface, a process called marvering. Next, threads or yellow and ligher blue glass were trailed onto this vessel, marvered on, and pulled to create the zigzag decoration. The bottle was allowed to cool, and finally, the core was scraped away.

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