Unguentarium

Museum number:
9-17316
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3776
Description:
Unguentarium; medium green glass with numerous pin-pricked air bubbles, several larger bubbles on interior wall; vertical streaks; thick-walled; broad piriform body and long tubular neck; wide rim doubled and flattened; pinched at base of neck; base flattened and rough. Some white incrustation on body and neck; greenish and blue opalescent patina. Loose, sandy clay inside.
Donor:
Bruno A. Schiro and Mary R. Schiro
Collection place:
Iran (Persia)
Object type:
archaeology
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Unguentarium, accession number 9-17316, described as Unguentarium; medium green glass with numerous pin-pricked air bubbles, several larger bubbles on interior wall; vertical streaks; thick-walled; broad piriform body and long tubular neck; wide rim doubled and flattened; pinched at base of neck; base flattened and rough. Some white incrustation on body and neck; greenish and blue opalescent patina. Loose, sandy clay inside.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Unguentarium, accession number 9-17316, described as Unguentarium; medium green glass with numerous pin-pricked air bubbles, several larger bubbles on interior wall; vertical streaks; thick-walled; broad piriform body and long tubular neck; wide rim doubled and flattened; pinched at base of neck; base flattened and rough. Some white incrustation on body and neck; greenish and blue opalescent patina. Loose, sandy clay inside.

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