amphora

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Object Type
Museum number: EA68431
Description: Fragment from the neck and upper body of an amphora: in translucent dark-blue glass of same form as 1894,0816.88. On the neck are simple festoons in opaque white, yellow, and light blue. The same colours are found in the elaborately clustered festoons of the body. The root of one handle in the same glass as the body survives on the shoulder. The core, as usual, has been scraped from the neck, but a white core remains on the body.
Authority
Cultures/periods
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Amarna, el-, palace dust-heap
Materials
Technique: core-formed; trailed
Dimensions: Length: 5.04 centimetres; Width: 2.38 centimetres
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1894
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA68431
Registration number: 1894,0816.89

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