Glass amphoriskos (perfume flask)

Unknown

1st century CE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Translucent, slightly streaky purple, with handles in colorless glass with a smoky green tinge. Misshapen tubular rim, folded out, over, and in, forming irregular flaring mouth; cylindrical neck; very narrow horizontal shoulder; ovoid body; cylindrical base, with flat but uneven bottom; two small rod handle attached in a claw pad to top of body, drawn up, round, and in, and trailed onto upper part of neck. One prominent continuous mold seam down neck, around body, and across bottom. On body, frieze of twenty-two downturned rounded ribs on upper body and twenty-eight upturned rounded ribs on lower body, joined by a central band of tendril scrolls bordered above and below by two horizontal raised lines. Intact; some bubbles; faint iridescence on exterior, some weathering and iridescence on interior.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1st century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman, Syrian

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891