Bassam Barakat Antiquities

Description

Aryballos Roman 1st-2nd Century AD
Spherical body, with short neck, massive muff-shaped profiled rim.
Small wide, thick handles.
Thick semi-green glass.
Attached to each handle, “Bronze” ring and Bronze Chain receive cast bronze handle in form of inverted U.
with very nice patina

Aryballos:
Small Perfume flask, spherical in shape, with a wide disk like rim and short throat.
Clay aryballoe could have one or two handles, thougg glass aryballoe always had two.
Young men carried arybolloi suspended from their waists.
They rubbed their bodies with oil prior to sporting events, afterwards using the perfumes to scrabe off mud and dirt, prior to taking a bath.
Aryballoe were also used by wemen.
[13:13, 8/7/2023] S.antiquities: See:
1. Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass. Volume one No.351
2. Ancient Glass in the Hermitage Collection, No.228 (but without the Bronze handle)