amphoriskos
- Museum number
- 1969,0401.74
- Description
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Core-formed glass amphoriskos.
Opaque trails, seemingly all white, but probably mixed orange and white; 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: 4 centimetres (base-disc)
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Diameter: 5.20 centimetres (max)
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Height: 10 centimetres (as extant)
- Curator's comments
- BM Glass
For mixed orange and white trails, see also BM Glass 366-7.
Found with with 371. Murray et al. 1900, 121, cite 'three variegated amphorae, several plain bottles' from this tomb. The present location of the third amphora is unknown.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Rim, handles (except bottom attachments and traces of the top ones) and part of base-disc missing. The whole covered with thick white to blackish enamellike weathering, with some iridescence, almost totally obscuring the true colours.
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1969,0401.74
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1894,1101.346 (?)
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Miscellaneous number: DBH.0198A (Harden number)
