amphoriskos
- Museum number
- 1856,1226.1162
- Description
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Core-formed glass amphoriskos.
Opaque light blue and opaque orange trails, translucent cobalt blue body and handles, with some white streaks.
Broad, inward-sloping rim-disc; tallish, cylindrical neck joining sloping shoulder in obtuse-angled curve; tall, ovoid body; base-knob tall and prominent with convex sides. Two vertical handles, round or oval in section dropped on shoulder, drawn up and folded inward to junction of rim and neck.
Unmarvered orange trail round edge of lip. Another, marvered, dropped on at shoulder and wound down, first in several straight revolutions of uneven thickness, then mingling with a light blue trail in a close, well-made zigzag band. Below this, still fairly high on body, an independent light blue horizontal trail and, on base-knob, an unevenly-placed, twofold, mingled orange and light blue trail.
Formed on a core; rim-disc, handles and base-knob drawn on and tooled; trails drawn on, marvered (except on lip) and combed. Original core-formed lip visible on inner edge of rim-disc, but does not protrude above it.
- Production date
- 550BC-375BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 1.50 centimetres (base-knob)
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Diameter: 5.40 centimetres (body)
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Height: 9.20 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Part of rim missing. Incipient pitting in places, but surface mostly retains pristine sheen.
- Acquisition date
- 1856
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1856,1226.1162
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: DBH.0135 (Harden number)
