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Description
Core-formed glass amphoriskos.
Opaque light blue and opaque orange trails, opaque dark blue body and handles. Body and handles speckled with tiny opaque white spots of scum.
Broad, inward-sloping rim-disc, tool-marks on upper and under surfaces; tallish, cylindrical neck joining sloping shoulder in obtuse-angled curve; tall, ovoid body. Two vertical handles, round or oval in section dropped on shoulder, drawn up and folded inward to junction of rim and neck. Upper ends of handles in 'volute' form with depressions in their centres facing opposite ways. Subcorneal base-knob with no central depression underneath.
Marvered orange trail round edge of lip. Another dropped on underneath rim and wound downward spirally, first, on neck, in wide-line revolutions, then, on shoulder, in interrupted narrow lines, below which it mingles, on body, with a light blue trail in a zigzag panel. Lower down the blue stops, but the orange continues to near bottom, being joined later by an indepen… (See Merlin record for full description)
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