Pale green glass scent or cosmetic bottle with conical body, flat base and elongated neck.

Collection type: Object
Description: Pale green glass scent or cosmetic bottle with conical body, flat base and elongated neck.
Geographical reference: Lebanon
Asia > Western Asia > Lebanon; Sidon OR Tyre
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Mercy Watson; PRM source Ipswich Museum; PRM source Patricia Margaret Maclaren Butler
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1889
Date collected: 1889
Acquisition information: Donated: 1967
Materials and processes: Material Glass
Dimensions: Height 125 mm, Diameter 45 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1967.29.122.2
Associated publications: Referred to on page 462 of 'Asia and the Middle East', by Dan Hicks, in World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization, edited by Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013), pp. 455-70. Hicks writes: ‘The largest component of the Lebanese material comprises an assemblage of c. 11 glass scent bottles ‘taken from tombs near Tyre and Sidon’, and c. 50 fragments of glass from multiple sites (1967.29.63, 1967.29.122), were among a collection of objects ‘brought back from Palestine, 1885-1887’, donated to Ipswich Museum by Mercy Watson, and purchased by the PRM with a large collection of other material from Ipswich Museum in 1966 (cf. 21.2.1 above).’. [MJD (Verve) 11/1/2016]

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