Jar (Amphoriskos)
Date: Late sixth through fifth centuries BCE
Dimensions:
H: 11.4 cm (4 1/2 in.)
Medium: glass
Place of Origin: Eastern Mediterranean, possibly from Rhodes
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1923.153
DescriptionAmphoriskos. Opaque white ground with purple decoration. Broad, inward-sloping rim-disk; rather tall cylindrical neck; obtuse-angled shoulder; tall conical body; circular opaque white base-knob with a rounded edge. Two opaque white vertical strap handles extend from the shoulder to the top of the neck. An unmarvered purple thread attached at the edge of the rim-disk; a second purple thread, marvered, begun on the shoulder wound spirally, at first in uneven horizontal lines, then tooled into an irregular zigzag pattern from the greatest diameter of the body to just above the base-knob. Tooling marks on the upperside of the rim-disk and on the neck. Pronounced vertical indentations on the body caused by the tooling of the zigzag patterns.Core-formed; applied rim-disk, handles, and base-knob; applied marvered and unmarvered threads; tooled.
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