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Unguentarium (cosmetic bottle)
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Intact piriform unguentarium of clear or pale blue-green glass. The bottom is flat; the neck is short, flaring out to form a flat mouth. The vessel has white opalescent opaque iridescence over most of the body.
Classification: C. Isings, Roman Glass from Dated Finds (Djakarta: Groningen, 1957), form 8/28a
Comparisons: Metropolitan Museum 74.51.58007; Adria, Mus. Arc. 65M
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Walton Brooks McDaniel New Jersey (?-1943/46) gift; to the Department of the Classics Harvard University (1943/46-2012) transfer; to the Harvard Art Museums 2012.
Note: Walton Brooks McDaniel gave a portion of his collection to the Department of the Classics in 1943 and the rest in 1946. The Collection is named for his late wife Alice Corinne McDaniel.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Department of the Classics Harvard University
Title: Unguentarium (cosmetic bottle)
Description:
Intact piriform unguentarium of clear or pale blue-green glass.
The bottom is flat; the neck is short, flaring out to form a flat mouth.
The vessel has white opalescent opaque iridescence over most of the body.
Classification: C.
Isings, Roman Glass from Dated Finds (Djakarta: Groningen, 1957), form 8/28a
Comparisons: Metropolitan Museum 74.
51.
58007; Adria, Mus.
Arc.
65M.
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