Glass amphoriskos with band of scrolls

Unknown

1st century CE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art

Translucent purple; handles in same color. Rim folded out, over, and in, then smoothed into flaring mouth; cylindrical neck; ovoid body; cylindrical base, with flat bottom; two rod handles attached in a 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. On body, frieze of twenty-nine downturned rounded tongues in raised outline on upper body and thirty upturned rounded tongues on lower body, joined by a central band of tendril scrolls bordered above and below by a horizontal raised line. Intact, but internal crack in neck under one handle; pinprick and larger bubbles; dulling, slight pitting, iridescence, and small patches of weathering. Violet Sidonian jug with two handles.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1st century CE

Medium

Glass

Culture

Roman, Syro-Palestinian

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917