Through trade the Greeks obtained and then copied the shape in colored glass or clay, calling the shape an “alabastron,” after the stone used for the vessels. Because they were considered very ...

Long narrow body with a flat base, narrowing at the neck with slight splayed mouth. CONDITION NOTE 1998: Two holes in side,worn, scratched, label sellotaped to surface.

Long narrow body with a rounded end; two lugs high up on the body; and a narrow neck supporting a wide flat mouth. Compare with W. M. F. Petrie, Stone and Metal Vases (London, 1937) no. 951. CONDITION ...

83, 86 (ill. p 87). Sidney Goldstein, “Cat. 73 Alabastron (Container for Scented Oil): Curatorial Entry,” in Roman Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016).

She holds an alabastron in her right hand. A chest is on the ground behind the woman. This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised ...

107, no. 111, fig. 237). A more vertical, more static version of Aphrodite holding her hair in her right hand and an alabastron in the left (therefore with the left shoulder level with the right ...

98.AD.123: Fragmentary standing woman wearing a peplos, holding two pomegranates in her left hand and an alabastron in her right; fragmentary; fifth century BC. 98.AD.124: Head and neck of a woman ...