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Ancient Art
Public domain

Amphoriskos

6th–4th century B.C.

Core-formed glass, white with violet decoration

4 15/16 in. (12.5 cm)
The Anna Rosalie Mansfield Collection
1930.409
Status: 
By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Culture: 
Eastern Mediterranean or Egyptian(?)
Period: 
Late Period
Classification: 
Containers - Glass
Provenance: 

With A. Khayat, 1909.

Bibliography: 

Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 8, no. 21, ill.

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