Unguentarium
65-39-8
From: Italy | Campania | Pompeii (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 65-39-8 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Roman |
| Provenience | Italy | Campania | Pompeii (uncertain) |
| Date Made | 0-99 CE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Glass |
| Technique | Blown |
| Description | Blown glass. Partly melted and distorted from fire; factory accidents (?) or perhaps from a household fire, e.g. in eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. (?). Body and part of neck of ungeuntarium. |
| Length | 5.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. Richard W. Sears II, 1965 |
| Other Number | GL19 (ancient glass project) - Other Number |
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