alabastron
- Museum number
- 1878,1230.8
- Description
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Core-formed glass alabastron.
Opaque white trails, opaque dark green body and handles.
'Roll'-rim in relief above roughly cylindrical body which expands slightly downward to rounded bottom. Two knob-handles, one higher than the other, each with depression on one side, facing opposite ways.
Continuous marvered white trail, beginning as ring round outer edge of rim and wound thence downward, first in one straight revolution, and then in widely-spaced inverted festoons all over body in six vertical strips, and with one straight revolution below the combed ends of the festooning.
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
- 400BC-275BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 2.90 centimetres (body, max)
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Diameter: 1.50 centimetres (neck)
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Height: 12.70 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Rim missing. White to buff weathering, mostly flaked off, leaving pitted surface with iridescent sheen.
- Acquisition date
- 1878
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1878,1230.8
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: DBH.0109 (Harden number)
