Core-formed dark blue glass Amphoriskos, body wound with blue and beige marbled festoons, the neck with light blue spiral bands, the shoulder with transparent blue glass loop-shaped handles, knobbed foot. Molten glass was trailed or gathered around a core supported by a rod. After forming and cooling, the object is removed from the rod and the core scraped out. Some encrustations.
400-200BC
3" x 2 1/4"
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