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Ancient Art
Public domain

Amphoriskos

Late 6th–early 4th century B.C.

Core-formed glass, transparent dark blue with yellow and light blue trails

3 9/16 in. (9 cm)
The Anna Rosalie Mansfield Collection
1930.379
Status: 
By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Culture: 
Eastern Mediterranean or Egyptian
Period: 
Archaic Greek or Late Period Egyptian
Classification: 
Containers - Glass
Provenance: 

The Anne Rosalie Mansfield Collection

Bibliography: 

Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 6, no. 13, ill.

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