Core Formed Glass Aryballos

Period Late 6th - 5th Century B.C.
Dimensions Height: 6.3 cm
Description

A core formed blue glass Aryballos, the globular body decorated with opaque yellow and turquoise marvered trails with yellow spiral threads above and a yellow and turquoise band below. The everted rim and one of the ‘duck-headed’ handles wound with a yellow thread. Eastern Mediterranean.

Condition: Intact.

Provenance

Frederic Neuburg, 1962

Published

Frederic Neuburg, Ancient Glass, page 39, no.

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