amphoriskos
- Museum number
- 1894,1101.691
- Description
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Core-formed glass amphoriskos.
Opaque orange and opaque white trails, translucent dark green body and base-disc, handles clear greenish.
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; combed feather pattern on body forming five 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: 3.40 centimetres (disc-base)
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Diameter: 5.20 centimetres (max, body)
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Height: 11 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Broken and mended, much of rim and shoulder restored in plaster; bottom ends of both handles missing. Whitish weathering-film, flaking in parts and leaving iridescent surface with some pitting.
- Acquisition date
- 1894
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1894,1101.691
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: DBH.0196 (Harden number)
