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Aryballos

Manufacturer Unknown

CultureEastern Mediterranean | Ptolemaic

Date2nd century B.C.

MediumCore-formed glass

DimensionsOverall: 6 11/16 in. (17 cm)
Overall, Rim: 1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm)

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.6742

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 116-1, Case 1

DescriptionAmphora of core formed glass. Elongated ovoid body with a tall cylindrical neck and a narrow slightly flaring rim. Almost black ground decorated with pale yellow spiral thread from the rim to shoulder top. Then combed (feathering) over most of the body, ending with an additional spiral of pale yellow. Attached pair yellow tint angular handles from just below rim reaching above rim to shoulder top and attached knob at the bottom. Almost mint condition, some weathering and iridescence. Ptolemaic.

Label TextEastern Mediterranean, possibly Syro-Palestinian Amphoriskos (Jar), 2nd-mid-1st century B.C. Core-formed glass; applied rim, handles and base knob Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.6742 Published ReferencesJ.M. Eisenberg, _Art in the Ancient World_, VOL. I, #44, pg. 241. Honey, _Glass A Handbook_, from the Victoria & Albert Museum, pg. 19, plate IF. The Corning Museum of Glass, _Glass From the Ancient World_. _The Ray Windfield Smith Collection_, 1957, #22, pg. 29. _Masterpieces of Glass, The British Museum_, #17, pg. 23.

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