alabastron
- Museum number
- 1873,0820.404
- Description
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Core-formed glass alabastron.
Opaque orange and opaque light blue trails, translucent dark blue body and handles.
Broad horizontal rim-disc, tool-marks on upper and under surfaces; short, cylindrical neck; round-angled shoulder; cylindrical body; rounded bottom. Below shoulder, two vertical ring-handles with knobbed tails.
Unmarvered light blue trail at edge of lip; another, marvered, dropped on at shoulder and wound spirally round vessel, at first in straight lines, then, at middle of body, in zigzags, where a light blue trail begins, mingling with it. Uneven and thickly applied. Below, a twofold orange horizontal trail with overlapping ends. Jagged edge of original lip of core-formed vessel rises markedly above top of added rim-disc.
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.
- Production date
- 550BC-375BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 2.80 centimetres (rim and body)
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Height: 9.30 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Intact. Iridescent film in parts. Bubbly.
- Acquisition date
- 1873
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1873,0820.404
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: DBH.0041 (Harden number)
