VASA VNGVENTARIA ROMANA

V. Bescós

unguentarium

“E vitro aut alabastro factum.”

Orbis pictus Latinus

Unguentarium fusiforme

Unguentaria piriformes

balsamarium

Alabastrum(alabastron, alabaster)

“Alabastrum vas unguentarium e lapide sui generis cognominatum, quem alabastriten vocant, qui incorrupta unguenta conservat.”

Isidoro, Etimologías 20, 7

alabastron

alabastron

onyx

(Onychem)

“Hunc aliqui lapidem alabastriten uocant, quem cauant et ad uasa unguentaria, quoniam optume seruare incorrupta dicatur.”

Plinio el Viejo, Historia Natural 36, 12

onyx

askos

aryballoi

aryballos

ampulla (olearia)

“Est vasis genus ex vitro aut alia materia, turgidum velut inflato ventre, et angusto ore, quo oleum veteres in balneis servabant.”

Orbis pictus Latinus“Et Cosmianis ipse fusus ampullis.....”Y él, perfumado con los frascos de pefume de Cosmos.....

Marcial, Epigramas 3, 82, 26

ampullae

ampulla

amphora

“Est genus vasis, habebat utrimque ansas; inserviebat praecipue ad liquores (oleum, vinum) condendos. Amphorae in inferiore parte erant acutae, ut in abaco aut in harena poni possent.”

Orbis pictus Latinus

amphora parva

amphora parva

amphoriskos

amphorula