alabastron
- Museum number
- 1868,0110.498
- Description
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Core-formed glass alabastron.
Opaque light blue trails, body and handles translucent cobalt blue. No noticeable white speckling.
Narrow rim-disc with tool-marks on upper and under surfaces; short neck tapers upward above misshapen shoulder; convex body with very little expansion downward to rounded bottom. Two small knob-handles, each with depression facing upward.
No trail at lip. Continuous marvered trail dropped on below shoulder and finishing at basal angle; at top, two straight revolutions, then three or four revolutions of inverted festoons above a main panel of zigzags, which ends, below, in one straight revolution.
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: 2.80 centimetres (max, body)
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Diameter: 2.60 centimetres (rim)
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Height: 10.80 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Chips out of rim. Background in part striated and pitted with some strain-cracks, in part glossy and apparently pristine; trails very heavily weathered and in part totally lost.
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1868,0110.498
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: DBH.0099 (Harden number)
