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Unguentarium

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Unguentarium

Also called unguentaria, balsamarium

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Bottles › Unguentarium

A narrow-necked closed vessel with no handle or with two, made in Cyprus from the Early Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period, mostly as a small container for liquids.

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Roman56
Hellenistic5

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Undecorated1

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Levant12
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Limassol1

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Glass vessel57
Pottery vessel3
Stone vessel1

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Glass57
Clay3
Calcite (alabaster)1

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Royal Ontario Museum56
Hunterian Museum3
Alexis Drakopoulos1
The Metropolitan Museum of Art1

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