amphoriskos
- Museum number
- 1894,1101.18
- Description
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Core-formed glass amphoriskos.
Opaque light blue and opaque orange trails, cobalt blue body and handles.
Broad, inward-sloping rim-disc. Short, cylindrical neck, joining nearly horizontal shoulder in sharp, angular bend; ovoid body, ended in disc-shaped base-knob. Two vertical handles, round or oval in section dropped on shoulder, drawn up and folded inward to junction of rim and neck, upper ends attached to middle of neck.
Unmarvered orange trail round edge of lip. Marvered orange trail dropped on shoulder and wound down, first in two straight revolutions then, on upper body, when a light blue trail mingles with it, in zigzag panel; below this two independent single horizontal trails, upper orange (with overlapping ends), lower light blue; on base-knob, orange trail.
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: 1.20 centimetres (base-knob)
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Diameter: 5.20 centimetres (body)
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Height: 7.50 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Broken and restored with much plaster filling; chip out of base-knob. Milky film flaking away and leaving pitted, iridescent surface.
- Acquisition date
- 1894
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1894,1101.18
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: DBH.0138 (Harden number)
