alabastron

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Object Type
Museum number: 1868,0501.75
Description: Glass alabastron, perhaps blown, built up of wavy strips of green, blue and white gold-banded glass. The surface is ground inside the neck and outside.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 100BC-25BC; 100BC - 25BC; 50BC - 1 BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus (?); Made in: Levant (?); Made in: Egypt (?)
Materials: glass; gold
Technique: blown (?); ground
Dimensions: Diameter: 2.30 centimetres; Height: 18 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Tait 1991 / Five Thousand Years of Glass (pl.66); Glass 2 / Catalogue of Greek and Roman Glass, Volume 2 (517)
Location: On display (G22/dc7)
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1868
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1868,0501.75
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: DBH.1263

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