This type of amphoriskos, which was probably used as an ointment bottle, is ubiquitous in the eastern Mediterranean, such places as Egypt (Honey, pl. 1E), Israel (Eliayu Dobkin Pavillion, p. 18), Lebanon (Baramki, pl. V), and Georgia (Vickers and Kakhidze, fig. 21), as well as in Italy (Mariacher, pl. 2), in the sixth through third centuries B.C.E. This coloring, which is also rather commonplace, is probably in imitation of Murrhine ware. Other comparable examples are Eisen, pl. 4, Richter, fig. 515, Hayes, no. 12, Constable-Maxwell Collection, lot 5, and Grose, nos. 107 and 108. - Ancient Glass in the University of Colorado Museum, Henry Colburn