- Museum number
- 1864,1007.62
- Description
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Core-formed glass oinochoe.
Opaque light blue and opaque orange trails, translucent cobalt blue body and handle.
Broad, trefoil-rim with lip spout, tool-marks on upper and under surfaces; cylindrical neck, joins shoulder in almost right-angled curve; ovoid body; splayed pad-foot, concave underneath. Handle, oval in section, dropped on at shoulder and, rising vertically to a height well above rim-level, then curves inward and downward to join back of rim-disc.
Unmarvered orange trail round edge of lip and another in one revolution round middle of neck. Marvered orange trail dropped on at shoulder and wound spirally down, first in a straight revolution, then in a broad zigzag panel, with lower part of which a light blue trail mingles. Below, two widely-spaced independent revolutions of orange (with overlapping ends) flanking a single revolution of light blue. On pad-foot an unmarvered orange trail and near bottom of handle an tiny unmarvered sunken disc of orange with central depression. Shape and trailing rather uneven, and crooked foot renders vessel unstable.
Formed on a core; rim-disc, handles and base-knob drawn on and tooled; trails drawn on, marvered (except on lip) and combed. Trefoil rim formed from broad rim-disc by tooling to vertical position at back and on each side. Pad-foot fashioned from added gob, the slanting marks of the fashioning-tool being readily visible on both upper and under surfaces.
- Production date
- 460BC-440BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 6 centimetres
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Height: 11 centimetres
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Weight: 120 grammes
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Depth: 7 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Attributed to Fikellura grave 81, based on evidence from Biliotti's marking on the object (grave number incised), Biliotti's Kamiros diary, Kamiros tomb list, British Museum register, departmental Kamiros index card. Description in Biliotti's Kamiros diary: Glass phiale, blue with yellow and green bands. Trefoil mouth (1 entire).
Attributions to find-spots are based on (1) Alfred Biliotti’s diary kept during excavations at Kamiros between November 1863 and June 1864, which records the contents of two votive deposits and over 300 graves; (2) entries in the Museum Register, often stipulating the find-spots of individual objects excavated by Biliotti; (3) the Kamiros tomb list, produced around the same time as his entries in the Museum Register. It lists the contents of each grave and votive deposit, along with their corresponding registration numbers; (4) the Kamiros index cards, written by Donald Bailey in the 1960’s. These mainly record the contents of graves from the Fikellura cemetery and are organised according to tomb group. All archives are kept in the Department of Greece and Rome. In addition, Reynold Higgins’ Catalogue of the Terracottas in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1954) has been checked for attributions to the Fikellura cemetery.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2018 9 May-3 Sep, Hong Kong History Museum, An Age of Luxury
2019 4 Apr-11 Aug, CaixaForum Barcelona, An Age of Luxury
2019-2020 18 Sep-12 Jan, CaixaForum Madrid, An Age of Luxury
2020 20 Feb-25 Oct, CaixaForum Zaragoza, An Age of Luxury
- Condition
- Intact. Incipient iridescent film, but surface mainly retains pristine sheen.
- Acquisition date
- 1864
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1864,1007.62
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: DBH.0239 (Harden number)