SLS 301 Artifacts Project Assignment # 5

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"Roman Women's Perfumes and Cosmetics and Roman Perfume Bottles"

ARTIFACTS

Roman PERFUME BOTTLES:

Three so-called 'TEAR BOTTLES' with tall necks. Blown green glass. Eastern Mediterranean, 2nd-4th cent. CE (2943; A60.29; A80.50).

Two miniature PERFUME BOTTLES. Blown green glass. Eastern Mediterranean, 2nd--3rd cent. CE (A2015; A2943);

One amphora-shaped UNGUENT BOTTLE, with two handles. Mold-blown blue glass, 2nd-3rd cent. (1966.2.10).

• Fleming, Stuart James, Roman glass : reflections on cultural change (1999)
  Call number DG 78 .F56 1999

  Kleiner, D. and Matheson, S. I, Claudia : women in ancient Rome (1996)

  Call number N 5763 .I25 1996

  Perfume Trade: Rostovtzeff, M. Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire, Oxford (1957; 1998)

  Call number DG 271 .R6 1998

  Stern, E. M. Roman, Byzantine, and early medieval glass, 10 BCE-700 CE (2001)

  Call number RE NK 5103.W8 S84 2001