alabastron
- Museum number
- 1878,1230.7
- Description
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Core-formed glass alabastron.
Opaque white and opaque orange trails, translucent dark blue body and handles.
Surface retains its pristine sheen with no visible trace of weathering.
Broad rim-disc, bevelled inward, tool-marks on upper and under surfaces; tallish neck, cylindrical within, but tapering downward on the outside; vestigial round-angled shoulder; elongated oval body with convex sides; rounded bottom. Below shoulder, two vertical ring-handles with knobbed tails.
Unmarvered orange trail round edge of lip. Marvered white trail dropped on neck and wound down spirally to basal angle in ten vertical panels of inverted festoons.
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: 2.70 centimetres (body)
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Diameter: 2.50 centimetres (rim)
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Height: 9.50 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Tail of one handle missing. One alien dark blue blob and two faulty depressions in body.
- Acquisition date
- 1878
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1878,1230.7
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: DBH.0072 (Harden number)
