10. Roman unguentarium, Palestine, 1st-2nd century AD
Glass
Height: 14.1cm
11500
Further images
Free-blown in a translucent, pale blue glass, the out-turned and inward-folded tubular rim flattened, cylindrical neck widening slightly toward the junction with the squat conical body, the base slightly concave....
Free-blown in a translucent, pale blue glass, the out-turned and inward-folded tubular rim flattened, cylindrical neck widening slightly toward the junction with the squat conical body, the base slightly concave. Intact, the surface with some slight pitting and patches of attractive purple iridescence.
Provenance
Dr and Mrs Rowland Campion; thence by descent, the underside has writing in black pen stating "ROMAN c.200 BC PALESTINE", then covered in a thin layer of varnish.Exhibitions
The Australian Institute of Archaeology, 1972Literature
Compare Anastassios Antonaras, Fire and Sand; Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum (Princeton, 2012), no.355Publications
For a discussion on the exhibition see Buried History; A Quarterly Journal of Biblical Archaeology, The Australian Institute of Archaeology, Vol.8 (September 1972), no.3
