cosmetic tube

Object NameKohl Tube

Made FromGlass

Date499-300 BCE

Techniquecore-formed, trail-decorated, tooled

SizeOverall H: 8.8 cm; Shoulder W: 1.8 cm; Rim Diam: 1.5 cm

Accession Number66.1.50

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

Kohl is a cosmetic material used to darken the eyelids.

Place Made

Northwestern Iran

Physical DescriptionTranslucent medium to deep blue glass, bubbly, heavy white weathering crust on trails, some yellow trails completely devitrified and lost, trails of opaque yellow and white, blobs of opaque red; core-formed, trail-decorated and tooled. Rounded cylindrical rim decorated with a trail of blue glass spirally wound with white below which a horizontal trail of white is applied and marvered in, neck spreads out into a wide square shoulder and down sharply into a long tapering form with rounded base. The sides have been decorated with alternating yellow and white trails wound around the body twenty-two times, marvered in and dragged alternately up and down to create an elaborate festoon or feather pattern; around the small square base a trail of blue spirally wound with white has been wrapped and marvered in, along each corner a similar heavy trail has been applied down the sides of the vessel, over the trail on the base and up an adjacent side, each end on the shoulder capped with a white eye and red center, the trails on the remaining two sides do not consist of a single coil, but each had been applied separately.
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