alabastron

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Object Type
Museum number: EA66633
Description: Alabastron: alabastron in opaque dark-blue glass. The relatively small rim slopes down to join the short cylindrical neck. The body is of conventional form and has just below the shoulder two pierced handles each with long flange in the same fabric as the body. The central part of the body has a yellow field (paint?) with opaque white chevron decorations on both the upper and lower areas. White threads border the upper and lower body. Light grey-brown core. Broken and assembled.
Cultures/periods: Late Period (?); Phoenician (?)
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Egypt
Materials
Technique: core-formed; applied; painted (?); pierced
Dimensions: Diameter: 3.60 centimetres (body); Diameter: 2.90 centimetres (rim); Height: 10.70 centimetres
Curator's comments: Bibliography : Charleston, Evans & Werner (eds.) 'Studies in Glass History and Design', Papers read to Committee B, Sessions of the VIIIth International Congress on Glass in London, 1-6 July 1968, 122, where an analysis of the core is given. Very probably this is one of the vessels mentioned by Wallis in a letter from Cairo dated 2 October 1891 where he writes, 'I have got 2 fine specimens of the XVIII dynasty polychrome glass - ground a deep blue'. At that date these later specimens were frequently equated with the New Kingdom examples.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1963
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA66633
Registration number: 1963,1112.39

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