alabastron
- Museum number
- 1856,1226.1156
- Description
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Core-formed glass alabastron.
Opaque white and opaque orange trails, translucent dark blue body and handles.
Broad rim-disc, bevelled inward, tool-marks on upper and under surfaces; tallish neck, cylindrical within, but tapering downward on the outside; vestigial round-angled shoulder; elongated oval body with convex sides; rounded bottom. Below shoulder, two vertical ring-handles with knobbed tails. Handles at different heights and lower one has a longer tail. Unmarvered orange trail round edge of lip. Marvered white trail dropped on shoulder and wound down spirally to basal angle in eleven vertical panels of inverted festoons.
Core-formed; rim-disc and handles trailed on and tooled, the handles formed by drawing upward from a drop-on at bottom and folding inward over a tool to make the ring.
- Production date
- 550BC-375BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 2.50 centimetres (body)
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Diameter: 2.30 centimetres (rim)
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Height: 8.70 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Intact. Surface retains pristine sheen, with only faint traces of iridescence.
- Acquisition date
- 1856
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1856,1226.1156
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: DBH.0070 (Harden number)
