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EASTERN MEDIATERRANEAN, POSSIBLY FROM RHODES CIRCA LATE 6TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Details
A CORE-FORMED GLASS ALABASTRON
eastern mediaterranean, possibly from rhodes
circa late 6th-early 5th century b.c.
Opaque in color, the tapering cylindrical body with a rounded bottom and rounded shoulders, a cylindrical neck and a horizontal rim-disk, the body with four bands of marvered blue threads framed above and below by a horizontal band of opaque yellow thread, the blue tooled into a zig-zag pattern, with an opaque yellow thread at the edge of the rim, and twin opaque white vertical ring handles with knobbed tails
3.5/8 in. (9.2 cm) long
eastern mediaterranean, possibly from rhodes
circa late 6th-early 5th century b.c.
Opaque in color, the tapering cylindrical body with a rounded bottom and rounded shoulders, a cylindrical neck and a horizontal rim-disk, the body with four bands of marvered blue threads framed above and below by a horizontal band of opaque yellow thread, the blue tooled into a zig-zag pattern, with an opaque yellow thread at the edge of the rim, and twin opaque white vertical ring handles with knobbed tails
3.5/8 in. (9.2 cm) long
Literature
Sangiorgi, Collezione di Vetri Antichi, no. 6, pl. IV (said to be from Greece).
Sambon, Les verres antiques, fig. 33.
Sambon, Les verres antiques, fig. 33.