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Description: | Core formed scent bottle with butt end. Cobalt blue body and handles; opaque yellow and opaque white trails forming zigzags on body. Not marked with its accession number. A royal blue glass amphoriskos which was used for carrying scent/perfume. It has a folded rim and flaring mouth. The handles are applied to the top of the neck and the shoulders. The neck is straight and decorated with a white spiral and a yellow spiral that continues down the shoulders. The rounded body tapers to a small knob foot. The body has vertical ribbing and is decorated with yellow and white rings which have been combed into a zigzag pattern. Sir John Lumley Savile (1886), 'Excavations at Nemi,' Journal of the British and American Society of Rome Sessions 1885-1886, pp63 Savile describes a 'beautiful little vase of coloured glass which was considered to be of Greek workmanship,' found on the road from Genzano on the western side of the temple terrace on the area believed to have been covered by a 'stoa' or pergola. Area F on Giammiti's plan in Wallis's Catalogue - ' Found with other pieces of glass when clearing the road to Baths and dwellings of the Priestesses of the Temple of Diana. (Marked F on plan).'
Accession number: NCM 1890-1355/584 | Subjects: | religion GREEK objects of indeterminate use (containers) ROMAN personal toilet | Temporal: | 300BC-250BC | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Creator: | ITALY? | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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