RG045
Roman bluish-green glass amphoriskos with molded body and twin deep turquoise glass handles.
4th century AD
H. 17.5 cm (6 7/8 in.)
Rim repaired, otherwise perfect. Fine silvery iridescence.
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The piriform body is molded with deep vertical indentations and diagonal fine ribbing. Cylindrical neck and flaring rim. The rim with applied spiral glass trailing. Twin deep-turquoise glass pair of handles applied from neck to shoulder, over glass ring of the same color at the neck. A glass disc of the same color forms the base.
Cf. [similar, with one handle] Hayes, John W., Royal Ontario Museum, 1984, pp. 111, 211, fig. 415.
Hayes, John W., Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto 1984.
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