Skip to main content

Classics Museum Catalogue

  • Home
  • About
  • Collections
  • Object clusters
  • Artefacts or objects
  • Back to Classics Museum

SLLL

  • Back to School main pages

Related Sites

  • ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences
  • Research School of Humanities and the Arts
  • Australian National Internships Program

Breadcrumb

HomeClassics MuseumANU Classics Museum CatalogueArtefacts or ObjectsUnguentarium With Pointed Base - 1978.09
Unguentarium with Pointed Base - 1978.09

Acquisition number: 1978.09

Intact and in good condition but for some very slight iridescence and cracking of the surface. Free-blown translucent blue glass with tall neck and simple everted lip that shows some spiralling; on an extended knob base.

  • Object details
  • Bibliography
  • Catalogue

Title: Unguentarium with Pointed Base - 1978.09

Acquisition number: 1978.09

Author or editor: J.R. Green

Culture or period: Roman Imperial

Date: Mid 1st century AD.

Material: Glass

Object type: Unguentarium

Dimensions: 26mm (w) × 140mm (h)

Display case or on loan: 9

Keywords: Roman, Imperial, Glass

Charles Ede Ltd (London) Cat 110(?). J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 112.

1978.09

Unguentarium with Pointed Base

Purchased. Ht 14cm; diam. 2.6cm.

Intact and in good condition but for some very slight iridescence and cracking of the surface. Free-blown translucent blue glass with tall neck and simple everted lip that shows some spiralling; on an extended knob base.

Compare G. De Tommaso, Ampullae vitreae (Rome 1990) type 26, where he points out that this general type (which is regularly of a blue colour) is found in Italy, Gaul and Germany as well as the Eastern Mediterranean, and that it seems to date to the mid-first century AD. See also the piece illustrated by von Saldern et al., Gläser der Antike 220 no. 639 or that in Y. Israeli (ed.), Ancient Glass in the Israel Museum (Jerusalem 2003) no. 105 with colour ill. at p. 104 (unprovenanced).

Charles Ede Ltd (London) Cat 110(?). J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 112.