amphoriskos
- Museum number
- 1897,0401.1054
- Description
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Glass amphoriskos.
Body and handles clear dark green with opaque orange trails.
Straight shoulder, sloping down to curved junction with body; elongated ovoid body with slightly convex sides tapering downward. Two small vertical ribbon-handles at top of body.
On upper neck two revolutions of wavy zigzag; on body, starting on shoulder, a feather pattern; on each handle a single, central, vertical, unmarvered trail.
Core-formed and tooled; trails on neck and body drawn on, marvered and combed, those on handles in sunken relief.
- Production date
- 1390BC-1186BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 4.70 centimetres
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Height: 11.40 centimetres (reconstructed)
- Curator's comments
- BM Glass
Murray et al. 1900, 23 f., fig. 63. Fossing 1940, 29 (mention only). Astrom 1967, 58f., 126 (=id. 1972, 530 f., 598). Nolte 1968, 112, 119, no. 42.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Parts of neck, shoulder, upper body, and handles extant, remainder restored in plaster. Broken and mended, two small gaps in upper body. Extensive strain-cracks. Whitish to brown enamel-like weathering in patches, beginning to flake away, leaving deeply pitted surface.
- Acquisition date
- 1897
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1897,0401.1054
