amphoriskos
- Museum number
- 1842,0728.582
- Description
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Core-formed glass amphoriskos.
Opaque light blue and opaque orange trails, emerald green body and handles.
Broad, inward-sloping rim-disc. Short, cylindrical neck, joining nearly horizontal shoulder in sharp, angular bend; ovoid body, ended in disc-shaped base-knob. Two vertical handles, round or oval in section dropped on shoulder, drawn up and folded inward to junction of rim and neck, upper ends attached to middle of neck.
Unmarvered orange trail round edge of lip. Another, marvered, dropped on at shoulder and wound down, first in two straight revolutions, then in a zigzag panel, in middle of which a light blue trail mingles for two revolutions; below, the orange trail continues alone in two straight revolutions. No trail on base-knob.
Formed on a core; rim-disc, handles and base-knob drawn on and tooled; trails drawn on, marvered (except on lip) and combed.
- Production date
- 550BC-375BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 1 centimetres (base-knob)
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Diameter: 4.60 centimetres (body)
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Height: 7 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Intact. Brownish weathering-film and some lime-encrustation in parts, remainder retains its pristine sheen.
- Acquisition date
- 1842
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1842,0728.582
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: DBH.0160 (Harden number)
