Amphora

MS5099

From: Israel | Palestine | Askalon

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS5099
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Israel | Palestine | Askalon
Section Mediterranean
Materials Glass
Technique Core-Form
Description

Translucent blue glass amphora with some decomposition and iridescence. Pointed base with body flaring from base to shoulder. Body decorated with thin threads of matte opaque yellow and white glass in a herring bone pattern. Shoulder turns inwars to meet base of cylindrical neck. At top of neck is a nearly flat rim with rounded edge. Shoulder, neck and rim decorated with thin horizontal threads of matte opaque yellw glass. Very thin ribbon handle of yellow translucent glass attaches shoulder to rim.

Height 14.9 cm
Width 5.2 cm
Depth 4.4 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Fr. Vester and Company, American Colony Store, Jerusalem, 1913
Other Number GL03 (ancient Glass Project) - Other Number | 2957 - Other Number

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