aryballos
- Museum number
- 1872,0604.1053
- Description
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Core-formed glass aryballos.
Opaque light blue and opaque orange trails, opaque light blue body and handles.
Broad, inward sloping rim-disc, tool-marks on upper and under surfaces; short, cylindrical neck, shoulder almost horizontal; sharp angle between neck and body; body globular with pronounced round-pointed drop at bottom. Two tailed ring-handles with end-knobs, dropped on at carination, drawn up shoulder and curled inward at top to form a ring where handle joins the lower part of the neck.
Unmarvered light blue trail round edge of lip. Marvered orange trail dropped on at shoulder and wound down, first in four straight revolutions, then in a narrow zigzag panel, mingling with a light blue trail; below, two independent trailed bands, the upper orange, the lower light blue.
- Production date
- 550BC-400BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 5.40 centimetres (max)
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Height: 6.20 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Intact. Lime-encrustation on rim-disc and top of neck; no weathering; surface retains its pristine sheen.
- Acquisition date
- 1872
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1872,0604.1053
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1936,0718.4 (C&E Number)
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Miscellaneous number: DBH.0208 (Harden number)