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Description: | Unguentaria were small vessels designed to hold sweet-smelling oils, also called `unguents'. All of the glass in this collection is Roman, of the first or second century AD. The great majority of the items were found in Cyprus and came to the museum in April 1888 as part of Lord Brassey's 'Cretan' donation. The vessels were blown into shape, this technique having been discovered in the first century BC. The manufacture of glass itself was first discovered in Egypt or Syria and dates back to at least 2500BC. The lustre apparent in some of the items results from burial and atmospheric change.
Flask with short bulbous body and long straight neck, clear glass | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Roman period Archaeology | Temporal: | 0001 - 0200 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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