amphoriskos
- Museum number
- 1894,1101.346
- Description
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Core-formed glass amphoriskos.
Opaque orange and opaque white trails, translucent dark green body and base-disc, handles clear yellowish.
Broad rim-disc, bevelled inward, with tool-marks on upper and under surfaces; tall, cylindrical neck, expanding toward bottom to join shoulder in gentle curve; ovoid body; large, flat base-disc with convex edge. Handles dropped on at shoulder and drawn upward in S-form, meeting neck at its bottom, near its bottom, and underneath rim.
Marvered orange and white trails dropped on at rim, into upright-festoon pattern on neck and shoulder; three simple spirals on shoulder; combed feather pattern on body forming eleven vertical panels.
Formed on a core; rim-disc, handles and base-knob drawn on and tooled; trails drawn on, marvered (except on lip) and combed. Base-disc tooled on.
- Production date
- 300BC-1BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 2.30 - 2.50 centimetres (base-disc)
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Diameter: 4.70 centimetres (body, max.)
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Height: 12.20 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Rim broken and mended, both handles, except for traces of all four attachments, and small piece of rim missing. Milky iridescent film all over, greatly obscuring colours. Flattened orange blob (a maker's repair, cf. BM Glass 343) in middle of body.
- Acquisition date
- 1894
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1894,1101.346
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: DBH.0198 (Harden number)
