Unguentarium (cosmetic bottle)
1st-2nd century CE
Description
Bottle; flat base, oblate body, long neck cut off at mouth, chip of neck missing. Opaque white-light brown accretions with patches of iridescence. Straw in body of vessel. Classification: Isings form 28B
Dimensions
H. 12.3 x Neck diam. 2 x W. 6.9 cm (4 13/16 x 13/16 x 2 11/16 in.)
Provenance
Charles Eliot Norton and Richard Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1895), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1895.
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