alabastron
- Museum number
- 1868,0110.601
- Description
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Broken core-formed glass alabastron.
Opaque white trail, body translucent dark blue. No noticeable white speckling.
Narrow rim-disc with tool-marks on upper and under surfaces; neck tapers upward above well-marker, rounded shoulder; convex body with very little expansion downward to rounded bottom. No knob-handles extant, but two could have existed on missing portion of body.
Trail on neck, probably beginning at rim, whence it drops downward sharply and continues, unbroken, to bottom; on shoulder, two straight revolutions; below, well-made, regular zigzag. 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: 2.40 centimetres
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Height: 8.80 centimetres (as extant)
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fragment, broken and mended, of neck and body only. Striated and pitted, but no weathering-film.
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1868,0110.601
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: DBH.0099A (Harden number)
