amphoriskos

Object NameAmphoriskos

Made FromGlass

Date125-1 BCE

Techniquecore-formed, trail-decorated, tooled

SizeOverall H: 12.6 cm; Body Diam: 4.7 cm

Accession Number72.1.99

Credit LineGift of Miss Gertrude Walker

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Exhibitions

The Fragrant Past: Perfumes of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar

VENINI - Glass and Design in a World Perspective

Place Made

Eastern Mediterranean

Physical DescriptionTranslucent medium blue glass body, extremely bubbly with some white stone, greenish-yellow glass handles, dull surface pitted with some iridescence, many medium to large bubbles, opaque white and opaque yellow trails; core-formed, trail-decorated, tooled. Thick squat vessel, thickened flared rim tapers into long almost cylindrical neck, tooling marks in evidence at constriction, neck spreads out into sloping shoulder and short ovoid body, yellow trail and white trail applied on upper surface of rim, wound alternately down neck to shoulder ten times and on body sixteen times, being dragged upward in a festoon pattern sixteen times and continues down to the base with six more winds; all trails have been marvered in over the entire surface; handles were applied at rim, pulled up into an arc, bent down and attached at the neck somewhat unevenly, a corresponding blob of glass applied at the base is now missing.
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