Hellenistic

Alabaster flask with stopper

In the Hellenistic period stone and glass vessels shared many of the same shapes and uses. Some cast glass alabastra, for example, have stoppers that are similar to this alabaster flask. Glass, however, gradually came to supplant the use of stone for such perfume bottles during the first century B.C. WebPub GR 2012 Cesnola: 3 7/16 in., 0.5 lb. (8.8 cm, 0.2 kg)

Date

199 - 50 BC

Accession No.

74.51.5110a, b

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

References

Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1633, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 551, p. 396, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.