Amphora
MS5099
From: Israel | Palestine | Askalon
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
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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