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Roman Glass

RG059
Roman light bluish green glass amphoriskos with twin blue glass handles.
3rd-4th century AD
H. 8.7 cm (3 3/8 in.)
Intact, with silvery white patina.

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The amphoriskos with squat piriform body, long cylindrical neck, flaring rim and ring base. Two folded blue glass handles attached from shoulder to neck. Spiral blue glass trailing twisted around the lower part of the neck.

Cf. (In yellow-green color): Auth, S. H., Ancient , N. J., 1976, p. 219, fig. 450.

Auth, S. H., Ancient Glass at the Newark Museum from the Eugene Schaefer Collection of Antiquities, Newark Museum, N. J., 1976.

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Roman light bluish green glass amphoriskos with twin blue glass handles.

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