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Unguent bottle

EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN / ITALY / GAUL
Unguent bottle
 2nd century CE

Medium
glass

Measurements
13.2 × 7.1 cm diameter

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mr W. D. Fulton, 1967
© Public Domain

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Eastern Mediterranean / Italy / Gaul

Accession Number
1517-D5

Department
Antiquities

This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Dame Carol Colburn-Grigor CBE through Metal Manufactures Limited

Physical description
Green unguent bottle with a widely splayed rim with lip folded upwards and inwards, a cylindrical neck, faintly tooled but not constricted at the junction with the body, and a flattened base. The vessel is blown; no pontil mark.

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