amphoriskos; flask

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Object Type: amphoriskos; flask
Museum number: 1894,1101.138
Description: Mediterranean Group 3 glass amphoriskos or perfume flask; core-formed; neck, mouth and handles missing; body made of made of translucent dark green body ending in a point; the stump of a handle on one side is in clear greenish-colourless glass; vessel decorated with opaque white and red trails: feathered in vertical columns in the surviving upper part of the vase; horizontal parallel bands below; surviving fragment repaired from many pieces.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 300BC-1BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus (?); Made in: Levant (?); Made in: Egypt (?)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Amathus, Site D, tomb 53
Materials
Type series
Technique: core-formed; tooled; trailed; combed; marvered
Dimensions: Diameter: 5 centimetres (body;max); Height: 8.50 centimetres
Curator's comments: This is the glass vase described in Excavations in Cyprus, p. 118 as having been 'pulverised by fall of roof'. Very small fragments from this vessel are stored in a glass jar labelled with the registration number.
Bibliographic references: Glass / Catalogue of Greek and Roman Glass in the British Museum (351); Murray, Smith and Walters 1900 / Excavations in Cyprus (p. 118, Tomb 53)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Funder name
Acquisition date: 1894
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1894,1101.138
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: DBH.0180 (Harden number)

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