Unguentarium | Yale University Art Gallery

2nd century A.D.

Medium: Free-blown glass, greenish blue (aquamarine)
Dimensions: 6.8 × 3.3 cm (2 11/16 × 1 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Exchange with the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Kurcoglu excavation
Accession Number: 1940.640
Culture: Roman, Eastern Mediterranean, Syrian(?)
Period: Roman
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

from the Chicago excavations at Kurcoglu, Syria. (Burned House)

Bibliography

Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Roman in the Provinces: Art on the Periphery of Empire (Chestnut Hill, Mass.: McMullen Museum of Art, 2014), 292, no. 104, pl. 104.

Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 68–69, no. 179, ill.

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unguentaria

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