amphoriskos
- Museum number
- 1868,0501.22
- Description
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Core-formed glass amphoriskos.
Translucent wine-coloured trails, opaque white body and handles.
Broad, inward-sloping rim-disc, tool-marks on upper and under surfaces; tallish, cylindrical neck joining sloping shoulder in obtuse-angled curve; tall, ovoid body; base-knob with convex edge, flat on under-side (modern alabaster, and no longer attached). Two vertical handles, round or oval in section dropped on shoulder, drawn up and folded inward to junction of rim and neck.
An trail, marvered, dropped on at shoulder and wound spirally downward, first in straight revolutions, then in zigzags, finishing just above base-knob. Trailing mostly rather thick.
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 and protrudes distinctly above it.
- Production date
- 550BC-375BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 6.30 centimetres
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Height: 12.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Glass
Old printed paper label '442'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Broken and mended with plaster filling in many places; base-knob modern, and no longer attached. Milky weathering with deep pitting and much iridescence on one side; the other side largely pristine, but with some iridescence.
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1868,0501.22
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: DBH.0120 (Harden number)