amphoriskos; flask

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Object Type: amphoriskos; flask
Museum number: 1976,1011.11
Description: Fragments of a Mediterranean Group 3 glass amphoriskos or flask; core-formed and trailed; ovoid body originally terminating in small knob (now missing); tall narrow neck with a disc-rim; pair of vertical handles which turn into the neck below the rim; body opaque dark green; one handle and end-knob dark green, other handle clear yellowish-green; 21 strips of opaque white and opaque red trails, feathered; surface weathered and pitted, especially on the trailing.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 300BC-1BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus (?); Made in: Levant (?); Made in: Egypt (?)
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Turner Bequest Excavations, Amathus (?); Excavated by: Turner Bequest Excavations, Curium (?)
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Amathus, Uncertain Tomb (?); Excavated/Findspot: Kourion, Uncertain tomb (?)
Materials
Type series
Technique: core-formed; trailed; marvered; tooled; combed
Dimensions: Diameter: 4.50 centimetres (body;max); Height: 8 centimetres
Curator's comments: Found unregistered in 1976 with no information about origin or context but is likely to be from the Turner Bequest excavations at Kourion or Amathus.
Bibliographic references: Glass / Catalogue of Greek and Roman Glass in the British Museum (355.a); Kiely 2011a / Kourion (U.17)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name: From: Turner Bequest Excavations, Amathus (?); From: Turner Bequest Excavations, Curium (?)
Funder name
Acquisition notes: Previously unregistered.
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1976,1011.11
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