alabastron
- Museum number
- 1867,0508.576
- Description
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Core-formed glass alabastron.
Opaque orange, opaque white and opaque light blue trails, body and handles opaque dark blue, speckled with many opaque white spots of scum.
Broad, horizontal rim-disc with tool-marks on upper and under surfaces; high, cylindrical neck with downward taper; pronounced angular shoulder; tall, straight-sided, cylindrical body with faint expansion downward to rounded bottom. Two ring-handles without tails.
Body covered in trails combed one way into upright-festoon pattern of mingled colours in sixteen vertical strips.
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. Handles dropped on and coiled.
- Production date
- 400BC-275BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 4.50 centimetres (body)
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Diameter: 6 centimetres (rim)
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Height: 18 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Some of lip-trail missing. Two flaws in glass on one side below handle. Milky film all over with some iridescence and pitting.
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1867,0508.576
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: DBH.0094 (Harden number)