RG058
Roman olive green glass amphora with wheel-cut ornament and pointed-base.
4th century AD
H. 20.8 cm (8 1/8 in.)
Missing one handle, rim restored.
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The amphora with cylindrical body ending in pointed base with rounded knob. Cylindrical thick neck with flaring folded rim. A pair of ribbed handles from upper neck to the shoulder (-one is missing). The body with wheel-cut ornament of three horizontal registers, framed by four groups of horizontal lines. The upper and lower registers with ornament of oval facets, with short vertical lines between them, and the central register with short vertical lines.
Cf. Whitehouse, D., Corning Museum of Glass,1997, p. 444, fig. 445.
Tait, H., editor, 1991, p. 89, fig. 112.
Matheson, S. B., Yale University Art Gallery, 1980, pp. 86-87, fig. 235.
Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol. I, New York, 1997.
Tait, H., editor, Five Thousand Years of Glass, British Museum Publications Ltd., London, 1991.
Matheson, S. B., Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, 1980.
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