alabastron
- Museum number
- 1879,0201.2
- Description
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Core-formed glass alabastron.
Opaque light blue and opaque orange trails, opaque dark green 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 mingled light and blue orange trail round edge of lip. Marvered mixed orange and light blue trails dropped on at neck, wound, unbroken, to bottom, and combed throughout into zigzags, apart from a few straight revolutions at top and one on bottom.
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: 3 centimetres (body)
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Diameter: 3.70 centimetres (rim)
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Height: 12.90 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Intact. Faint traces of red earth and lime-encrustation on neck, etc., but removed elsewhere, revealing pristine sheen on surface.
- Acquisition date
- 1879
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1879,0201.2
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: DBH.0022 (Harden number)
