Balsamarium

 

Provenance and site: Panticapaeum (Kerch), Bosporus, 1st–3rd century

 

Blown blue-tinted glass

H: 18 cm

UMP 814

 

Purchased from Vladislav Škorpil (Shkorpil) in 1895.

 

An example of glass tableware produced locally in the Greek colonies of the Bosporus.