Condition
Complete; cracked. Milky weathering covers the surface; few pinprick bubbles.
Description
Uneven rim, in-folded and out-splayed; long, cylindrical neck, widening at top and bottom; squat globular body with slightly concave bottom. No pontil mark visible on the bottom.
Comments and Comparanda
This unguentarium is a quite common form that is present in both the eastern and the western areas of the Mediterranean. For western Mediterranean finds, see Antonaras, Anastassios. 2012. Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press., p. 224, no. 350; De Tommaso, Giandomenico. 1990. Ampullae vitreae: Contenitori in vetro di unguenti e sostanze aromatiche dell’Italia romana (I sec. a.C.–III sec. d.C.). Roma: Bretschneider., pp. 59–60, type 33; Larese, Annamaria. 2004. Vetri antichi del Veneto. Corpus delle collezioni del vetro in Venezia 8. Venice: Comitato Nazionale Italiano, AIHV., p. 68, tab. 77, 117, plate 15; Mandruzzato, Luciana, and Alessandra Marcante. 2007. Vetri antichi del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Aquileia: Balsamari, olle e pissidi. Corpus delle Collezioni del Vetro in Friuli Venezia Giulia 3. Venice: Comitato Nazionale Italiano, AIHV., p. 92, nos. 218–219. For eastern Mediterranean finds, see Delougaz, Pinhas, and Richard C. Haines. 1960 A Byzantine Church at Khirbat al-Karak. University of Chicago Oriental Institute Publications 85. Chicago: University of Chicago Press., plate 50:4–5; Fortuna, Maria Teresa. 1965. “I vetri soffiati della necropoli di Akko.” Journal of Glass Studies 7: 17–25., fig. 10; Barag, Dan. 1970. “Glass Vessels of the Roman and Byzantine Periods in Palestine.” PhD diss. [in Hebrew], Hebrew University, Jerusalem., vol. 2, plate 46, type XXI:1; Mazar, Eliat. 1994. “A Burial Ground of the Roman Period at Gesher Haziv.” ‘Atiqot 25: 77–93., pp. 79–80, fig. 5; Dussart, Odile. 1998. Le verre en Jordanie et en Syrie du sud. Bibliothèque archéologique et historique 152. Beirut: Institut Français d’Archéologie du Proche-Orient., pp. 162–163, type B.XIII.1111a, plate 50:1–12; Israeli, Yael. 2003. Ancient Glass in the Israel Museum: The Eliahu Dobkin Collection and Other Gifts. Jerusalem: Israel Museum., p. 212, no. 251; Shourkin, Ofra. 2004. “Burial Grounds and an Industrial Area in Wadi el‑Ḥalaf (near Khirbat Ras Abu Ma’aruf) in Pisgat Ze’ev, Jerusalem.” ‘Atiqot 48: 27–58 [Hebrew], 152–155 [English summary]., p. 153, plate 20:2.
Provenance
1979, Edwin A. Lipps, 1922–1988 (Pacific Palisades, California), donated to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1979
Bibliography
Unpublished
Exhibitions
None