Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle) late 6th–5th century Greek, Eastern Mediterranean Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque , inward-sloping rim-disk with radiating tool marks on upper surface; cylindrical neck tapering upward; broad rounded shoulder; top-shaped body; circular base-knob with with rounded edge and slightly concave bottom; two vertical strap handles applied to top of shoulder, drawn up, and pressed onto neck and underside of trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another applied as an uneven pad on shoulder, wound spirally
Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle) late 6th–5th century Greek, Eastern Mediterranean Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque , inward-sloping rim-disk with radiating tool marks on upper surface; cylindrical neck tapering upward; broad rounded shoulder; top-shaped body; circular base-knob with with rounded edge and slightly concave bottom; two vertical strap handles applied to top of shoulder, drawn up, and pressed onto neck and underside of trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another applied as an uneven pad on shoulder, wound spirally round one and a half times to junction of shoulder and body, then tooled into an uneven close-set zigzag pattern on upper half of body, with twenty-seven alternating upward and downward tooling strokes forming vertical ribs in sides; below this, same trail continues in a spiral to base-knob; part of a fine unmarvered trail runs horizontally around upper body over zigzag ; slight dulling but very little Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle). Greek, Eastern Mediterranean. late 6th–5th century Glass; core-formed, Group I. Classical. Glass
Size: 1094px × 1936px
Photo credit: © MET/BOT / Alamy / Afripics
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