This document contains definitions and descriptions of various types of vessels used for holding perfumes, oils, and other liquids in Roman times. It includes entries on unguentarium (ointment vessel), alabastrum (alabaster vessel), onyx, askos, aryballoi, ampulla (oil vessel), and amphora (two-handled vessel used for liquids). The text provides details on what each vessel was made of and how it was typically used.

1. VASA VNGVENTARIA
ROMANA
V. Bescós

2. unguentarium
“E vitro aut alabastro factum.”
Orbis pictus Latinus

3. Unguentarium fusiforme

4. Unguentaria piriformes

5. balsamarium

6. Alabastrum
(alabastron, alabaster)
“Alabastrum vas unguentarium e lapide sui
generis cognominatum, quem alabastriten
vocant, qui incorrupta unguenta conservat.”
Isidoro, Etimologías 20, 7

7. alabastron

8. alabastron

9. 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

10. onyx

11. askos

12. aryballoi

13. aryballos

14. 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

15. ampullae

16. ampulla

17. 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

18. amphora parva

19. amphora parva
amphoriskos
amphorula