fragment
Object NameFragment of Bottle or Amphoriskos
Made FromGlass
Date1400-1300 BCE
Place MadeEgypt
Techniquecore-formed, trail-decorated, tooled, marvered
SizeOverall H: 1.8 cm, W: 4.2 cm
Accession Number59.1.22
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionTranslucent bluish-turquoise glass, bubbly, dull surface with some pinprick bubbles, opaque white and opaque yellow trails; core-formed, trail-decorated and tooled. Fragment preserves shoulder segment of an amphoriskos or bottle with two separate registers of white and yellow trails, each dragged alternately up and down and subsequently marvered into the surface, in the upper area some tooling on the surface may indicate the point below the handle although this is impossible to verify.Provenance
Source
Ray Winfield Smith
(American, 1897-1982) - 1959-07-27
