Perfume Bottle

Unknown Roman
Unidentified Near Eastern maker

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1st-3rd century CE

Glass

Overall: 5 in. (12.7 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Alice Cox, Class of 1939hW

165.11.15569

Geography

Place Made: West Asia, Asia

Object Name

Furnishings: Household Accessory

Research Area

Near East

On view

Course History

History 10.02, Archival Research, Julia Rabig, Summer 2025

Anthropology 31.01, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 36.01, Gender in Cross Cultural Perspectives, Sabrina Billings, Fall 2025

Theater 15.01, Theatre & Society I, Samantha Lazar, Fall 2025

Classical Studies 12.01, Greek and Roman Engineering and Technology, Margaretha Kramer, Fall 2025

Humanities 1.01, Decadence, Rebecca Biron, Fall 2025

Anthropology 39.01, Middle Eastern Studies 3.02, Archaeology of the Middle East, Jesse Casana, Winter 2026

Classical Studies 21.01, Greek Archaeology: Early Iron Age, Julie Hruby, Winter 2026

Classical Studies 20.01, Greek Archaeology: First Hominins to Mycenaean Palaces, Margaretha Kramer, Spring 2026

History 71.02, Middle Eastern Studies 17.23, Law, Order, and Conquest in Islamic History, Aseel Najib, Spring 2026

Studio Art 21.01, Sculpture II, Soo Sunny Park, Spring 2026

Studio Art 73.01, Sculpture III, Soo Sunny Park, Spring 2026

Exhibition History

Stone, Sand, and Clay: Connecting Cultures in the Ancient Mediterranean, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 7, 2025 - Ongoing

Provenance

Alice Ray Cox (1891-1975), Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 1965.

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