Oil flask (alabastron)
mid-4th–late 3rd century B.C.
FindspotAssos (Behramkale), Troad, Anatolia (Turkey)
Place of ManufactureEgypt (probably)
Medium/TechniqueGlass, core-formed with applied decoration
DimensionsHeight x diameter (max.): 13.8 x 3.5 cm (5 7/16 x 1 3/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Archaeological Institute of America
Accession number84.14
On View
Not on viewClassificationsVessels
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ProvenanceFrom Assos (Behramkale, Turkey); found in river bed, washed out from some tomb by the spring freshet of1883: excavated by the Archaeological Institute of America; gift of the Archaeological Institute of America to MFA, January 1884.
Late 6th–5th century B.C.
Late 6th–5th century B.C.
Late 6th–5th century B.C.
Late 6th–5th century B.C.
about 5th century B.C.
about 500–475 B.C.
about 350–250 B.C.
2nd–1st century B.C.
mid-2nd–1st century B.C.
mid-2nd–1st century B.C.
late 6th–5th century B.C.
5th–early 4th century B.C.