Unguent bottle
This is a tall Roman discoid unguent bottle with a flared lip, long neck widening to a low slightly convex body and concave base. It is made of colourless glass, probably from the second and third quarters of the second century. These vessels were sometimes used in burials. It was found in Cyprus.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 31/1918/144
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Southern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Cobham, Claude Delaval
- Material
- glass
- Common Name
- unguent bottle
- Simple Name
- vessel
- Period Classification
- Roman Imperial - 31 BC-476 AD
