1978.495.15: Neck Fragment with Handles
Fragments
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1978.495.15
- Title
- Neck Fragment with Handles
- Other Titles
- Former Title: Neck fragment of amphora with handles
- Classification
- Fragments
- Work Type
- neck amphora, sherd
- Date
- 2nd-4th century CE
- Period
- Roman Imperial period
- Culture
- Roman
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/77942
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Pale yellow-green glass
- Technique
- Free-blown glass
- Dimensions
- 4.1 cm (1 5/8 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University (by 1978), transfer; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1978.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
- Accession Year
- 1978
- Object Number
- 1978.495.15
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Fragment of small glass amphora, remains of shoulder and neck; two applied handles. Extensive layers of accretion and flaking iridescence cover the fragment, and there are many cracks.
Verification Level
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