Glass amphoriskos (perfume flask) with band of lozenges
Translucent brownish yellow; handles in cobalt blue.
Everted rim, rounded in flame; flaring mouth; cylindrical neck; globular body; slightly oval base, with flat bottom; two rod handles attached in a large pad to shoulder, drawn up, turned in, and pressed onto neck. One continuous mold seam around body and across bottom, extending to base of neck and forming raised line across bottom with a small knob at the center.
On body, frieze of sixteen downturned raised tongues on upper body and twenty-one upturned rounded tongues on lower body, joined by a central band of twelve contiguous X-shaped lozenges bordered above and below by two horizontal raised lines.
Broken and cracked with one large hole in side; few bubbles; faint iridescence, small patches of creamy white weathering, and some soil encrustation on interior.
Yellow molded Sidonian jug with two handles.
Everted rim, rounded in flame; flaring mouth; cylindrical neck; globular body; slightly oval base, with flat bottom; two rod handles attached in a large pad to shoulder, drawn up, turned in, and pressed onto neck. One continuous mold seam around body and across bottom, extending to base of neck and forming raised line across bottom with a small knob at the center.
On body, frieze of sixteen downturned raised tongues on upper body and twenty-one upturned rounded tongues on lower body, joined by a central band of twelve contiguous X-shaped lozenges bordered above and below by two horizontal raised lines.
Broken and cracked with one large hole in side; few bubbles; faint iridescence, small patches of creamy white weathering, and some soil encrustation on interior.
Yellow molded Sidonian jug with two handles.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass amphoriskos (perfume flask) with band of lozenges
- Period: Early Imperial
- Date: 1st century CE
- Culture: Roman, Syro-Palestinian
- Medium: Glass; blown in a two-part mold
- Dimensions: H.: 3 in. (7.6 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.194.221
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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