Currently not on view
Ridged amphoriskos,
1st century CE
Roman Imperial Period, ca. 30 BCE–476 CE
y1946-17
Information
Title
Ridged amphoriskos
Dates
1st century CE
Medium
Transparent bright blue glass
Dimensions
h. 11.5 cm, max. diam. 2.5 cm (4 1/2 x 1 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, partial gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
y1946-17
Place Made
Levant
Description
In-folded, everted rim; short cylindrical neck; elongated ovoid body; pointed bottom. Two coil handles attached on shoulder and upper part of neck. Body covered with twenty-three horizontal ridges. Blown into a bipartite mold of two vertical sections, the seam visible along the middle of the sides.
Materials
Subject
Partially purchased from John Khayat by the Museum; partially given to the Museum by Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
- Louis de Clercq, Joachim Menant and André de Ridder, Collection de Clercq: catalogue méthodique et raisonné: antiquités assyriennes, cylindres orientaux, cachets, briques, bronzes, bas-reliefs, etc., (Paris: Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres; E. Leroux, 1888-)., Vol. 5: no. 129 (illus.)
- Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 68 (illus.)
- Anastassios Antonaras, Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2012), cat. no. 231 (illus.)
