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Glass lentoid aryballos (perfume bottle)

late 4th–early 3rd century BCE
Not on view
Semi-opaque dark blue, with handles, coils, and feet in same color; trails in opaque yellow.
Broad sloping horizontal shoulder; flattened globular body, with convex sides; shallow convex bottom; two rolled cylindrical feet on either side of bottom; two vertical ring handles attached to shoulder; two coils running down sides between handles and feet.
An unmarvered fine yellow trail attached at the edge of rim-disk; another similar yellow trail wound spirally round neck; on body, a third trail applied to outer edge of shoulder and tooled into a feather pattern with alternating upward and downward strokes, forming vertical ridges in sides; coils decorated with a spiraling yellow trail.
Broken and partially restored from fragments, about half of body preserved with several unattached fragments of rim, neck, and body; heavily pitted with white iridescent weathering covering all surfaces and broken edges.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Glass lentoid aryballos (perfume bottle)
  • Period: Late Classical or Early Hellenistic
  • Date: late 4th–early 3rd century BCE
  • Culture: Greek
  • Medium: Glass; core-formed, Group II
  • Dimensions: 3 7/16 x 2 7/8 x 2 1/16 in. (8.8 x 7.26 x 5.25 cm)
  • Classification: Glass
  • Credit Line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
  • Object Number: 91.1.1327
  • Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art

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