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HELLENISTIC CORE-FORMED OPAQUE BLACK GLASS AMPHORISKOS
SKU: S.186
Period: Hellenistic Period.
Date: 2nd/1st Century Bc.
Dimension: 13cm.
Condition: In very good condition, intact.
Description
Description
HELLENISTIC CORE-FORMED OPAQUE BLACK GLASS AMPHORISKOS
Eastern Mediterranean, 2nd-1st Century B.C.
core-formed, standing on a green-colored knop-foot, decorated with opaque red, white and yellow-colored trailing combed into a feather pattern with horizontal lines above and below, twin Green-colored glass handles attached to the shoulder and neck.
This is a spectacular example of the amphoriskos form, a rendition in glass of the classical two-handled amphora. The vessel has an elongated ovoid body, a tall tubular neck and splayed rim, and two trailed handles. cylindrical neck with out-splayed rim.
Some hairline cracks but otherwise intact, with the original high gloss fire polish exceptionally well preserved.
See: Toledo 1989 amphoriskos form III:2A, but with taller handles similar to those on form III:2B.
Cf. Toledo 1989, no. 170, p. 170.
