Gold Band Alabastron

  • Eastern Mediterranean
  • 1st century B.C.
  • Glass
Catalogue Entry

The vessel made of semi-translucent green glass is then topped with a wavy fused band of five colors?|blue, white, blue, transparent with gold flakes and gold flakes in green glass. Like the gold band jar at cat. No. 122, this jar is thought to have been originally fitted with a lid. This jar would have probably been used as a cosmetics container.