Amphoriskos

 

Campania, Italy, 1st century (likely from the Publia Vestoria workshop in Puteoli)

Site: Panticapaeum (Kerch)

 

Blown mauve-tinted glass with blue glass handles

H: 9.2 cm

UMP 951

 

Purchased from Vladislav Škorpil (Shkorpil) in 1895.

 

Derived from older designs, the vessel shape follows the style of the Augustan renaissance.