Condition
Fully preserved; small crack on the rim.
Description
Slightly flaring rim, in-folded and flattened; cylindrical neck, constricted at its base; tear-shaped body; flat, slightly concave bottom. At the center of the bottom is an annular, circular pontil mark (W. 1.4, Th. 0.1 cm).
Comments and Comparanda
This unguentarium belongs to a quite common eastern Mediterranean form. For finds, see Vessberg, Olof. 1952. “Roman Glass in Cyprus.” Opuscula Archaeologica 7: 109–165., pp. 140–141, plate IX:24; Isings, Clasina. 1957. Roman Glass from Dated Finds. Groningen: Wolters., p. 24, form 8; Barag, Dan. 1970. “Glass Vessels of the Roman and Byzantine Periods in Palestine.” PhD diss. [in Hebrew], Hebrew University, Jerusalem., vol. 2, plate 44, type XVI:1; Kunina, Nina Z., and N. P. Sorokina. 1972. “Stekliannye balzamarii Bospora.” Trudy Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha 13: 146–177., p. 158, fig. 6:22; Stern, Eva Marianne. 1977. Ancient Glass at the Fondation Custodia (Collection Frits Lugt) Paris. Archaeologia Traiectina 12. Groningen: Wolfers-Noordhoff., pp. 35–38, no. 7, plate 10; 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., p. 66, type 43; Antonaras, Anastassios. 2012. Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press., pp. 218–219, nos. 335–339; Antonaras, Anastassios. 2017. Glassware and Glassworking in Thessaloniki: First Century BC–Sixth Century AD. Oxford: Archaeopress., pp. 149–150, form 126b.
Provenance
1979, Edwin A. Lipps, 1922–1988 (Pacific Palisades, California), donated to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1979
Bibliography
Unpublished
Exhibitions
None