Bulbous Unguentarium

Title: Bulbous Unguentarium
Inventory Number: A0137
Date Acquired: 1909
Source: Magoffin
Provenance: Italy
From Date: -299
To Date: -100
Description: Elongated piriform body on small flat base; tall flaring neck with low discoid rim slightly smaller in D than top of neck; ribbed all over, shallow poorly articulated ribs on neck, broad, sharply articulated ribs on body. Coated all over w red paint.
State of Preservation: Paint badly worn all over; surface sporadically scratched & pitted.
Height: 22 cm
Max Diameter: 7.64 cm
Rim Diameter: 3.75 cm
Base Diameter: 2.36 cm
Color: Clay body 10YR 8/3 (very pale brown); paint 5YR 5/8 (yellowish red).
Type: vessel
Material: fired clay