alabastron
- Museum number
- 1873,0820.408
- Description
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Core-formed glass alabastron.
Translucent deep green.
Broad horizontal rim-disc, prominent tool-marks on upper and under surfaces; short, cylindrical neck; sharp-angled shoulder; body with strongly-convex sides with maximum diameter well below the middle; rounded bottom. Below shoulder, two vertical ring-handles with knobbed tails.
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: 4.40 centimetres (body)
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Diameter: 3.50 centimetres (rim)
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Height: 13.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Glass
Fossing 1940, 59, note 4, fig. 27.
- Location
- On display (G69/Balcony/dc3/shA)
- Condition
- Intact. Iridescent flaking film, with some pitting. Some lime-encrustation.
- Acquisition date
- 1873
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1873,0820.408
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: DBH.0006 (Harden number)