alabastron
- Museum number
- 1872,0726.5
- Description
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Core-formed glass alabastron.
Opaque orange and opaque white trails, body and handles translucent cobalt blue with no 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. Two small knob-handles, each with depression facing upward. Handles at uneven heights below shoulder.
No trail at lip. Marvered orange trail dropped on at shoulder and joined, after three straight revolutions, by white trail to start a feather pattern which continues thence downward without breaks in alternating groups of white and orange in seven vertical panels to end at basal angle in two straight white revolutions.
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
- 340BC-200BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 2.80 centimetres (max, body)
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Diameter: 2.50 centimetres (rim)
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Height: 12.70 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Broken and mended; two small holes in shoulder and some plaster filling near bottom; one side much weathered and pitted in parts, remainder of vessel mainly retains pristine sheen.
- Acquisition date
- 1872
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1872,0726.5
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: DBH.0098 (Harden number)
