alabastron

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Object Type
Museum number: EA4744
Description: A Phoenician alabastron: the body is of translucent white glass with wide flat rim. Two handles on shoulder, each pierced and having the usual long flange. Threads enclose the central, decorated area of the body. Both the lines and the chevrons seem to be purple threads but they are so decayed that this is uncertain. Rim broken. Surface iridescent. Body assembled. Red-brown core.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 6thC BC-5thC BC
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Egypt
Materials
Technique: pierced; core-formed
Dimensions: Height: 8 centimetres; Width: 3.60 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Cooney 1976 / Glass (1048); Glass / Catalogue of Greek and Roman Glass in the British Museum (89)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1842
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA4744
Registration number: .4744
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: BS.4744 (Birch Slip Number)

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