amphoriskos
- Museum number
- 1878,1230.12
- Description
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Core-formed glass amphoriskos.
Opaque light blue and opaque orange trails, translucent cobalt blue body and handles.
Broad, inward-sloping rim-disc, tool-marks on upper and under surfaces; tallish, cylindrical neck joining sloping shoulder in obtuse-angled curve; tall, ovoid body; base-knob with convex edge, flat on under-side. Two vertical handles, round or oval in section dropped on shoulder, drawn up and folded inward to junction of rim and neck.
Unmarvered orange trail round edge of lip. Marvered orange trail dropped on underneath rim and wound spirally down, at first, on neck, in straight revolutions, then, at shoulder a light blue trail in a straight revolution into a zigzag panel. Below an orange trail slopes down to two(?) more straight revolutions. Ends well below the zigzag panel in a thick horizontal revolution.
Formed on a core; rim-disc, handles and base-knob drawn on and tooled; trails drawn on, marvered (except on lip) and combed. Original core-formed lip visible on inner edge of rim-disc, but does not protrude above it.
- Production date
- 550BC-375BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 1.50 centimetres (base-knob)
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Diameter: 5.60 centimetres (body)
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Height: 9.40 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Glass
Intact. Thick coat of enamel-like weathering, much of it now flaked away, leaving pitted, iridescent surface.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1878
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1878,1230.12
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: DBH.0153 (Harden number)