amphora
- Museum number
- 1756,0101.565
- Description
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Yellow blown glass amphora with a partly-rounded, partly-folded rim, a cylindrical neck, an elongated ovoid body, and a pointed base. There are two handles (mainly missing) from neck to shoulder.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 2.30 centimetres (rim)
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Height: 10.60 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Sir Hans Sloane’s ‘Miscellanea’ catalogue is a bound volume in Central Archives containing seven separate catalogues: ‘Miscellanies’, ‘Antiquities’, ‘Seals’, ‘Pictures’, ‘Mathematical Instruments’, ‘Agate Handles’ and ‘Agate Cups, Bottles, Spoons’. Each contains numbered entries that list and describe objects collected by Sloane between the 1680s and 1750s. Each catalogue begins with object number one.
Text from Sloane Miscellanea catalogue: Miscellanea Antiquities 565 "565. The same of a conicall shape. Id."; the same referring to Miscellanea Antiquities 564 "564. A bottle wt. 2 ears in the form of a lachrymatory Id."; id referring to Miscellanea Antiquities 560 "560. A lachrimatory wt. the sides compressed guilt wt. sevll. figures, vases &c. in terra cotta done in basso relievo upon it. From Cardinall Gualtieris collection."
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1756,0101.565
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: DBH.1037
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Miscellaneous number: SLAntiq.565
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Sloane Miscellanea Catalogue number: 565 (Antiquities)