Bottle in the Shape of the Tyche of Antioch in the Yale University Art Gallery, October 2013

Tyche Bottle

2nd-3rd century A.D.

Transparent light purple glass with traces of yellow

16.51 x 4.445 x 5.715 cm (6 1/2 x 1 3/4 x 2 1/4 in.)

Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Bequest of Mrs. William H. Moore

1955.6.81

Culture: Roman, Eastern Mediterranean

Period: Roman, 2nd-3rd century A.D.

Classification: Containers - Glass

Bibliography:

Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 10203, no. 276, ill.

“Catalogue of the Exhibition ‘An Obsession with Fortune: Tyche in Greek and Roman Art’,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1994): 115, no. 49, fig. 31.

Mark D. Stansbury-O’Donnell, “Reflections of the Tyche of Antioch in Literary Sources and on Coins,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1994): 54, no. 49, fig. 31.

Axel von Saldern, Antikes Glas (Munich: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2004), 292.


Text from: artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/52779