Glass cinerary urn

Roman

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Translucent blue green; handles in same color.
Everted rim, folded down, round, up, and in, forming a solid, vertical collar and upward-projecting lip; flaring mouth; short, concave neck; large, piriform body; splayed hollow foot; concave bottom; two vertical, omega-shaped handles, attached on opposite sides of upper body, each made of a thick trail, applied as a large circular pad, drawn across body from left to right, and trailed off back along top of handle.
Intact; pinprick bubbles and bands of horizontal scratches on exterior of mouth and upper part of body; dulling, patches of thick creamy brown weathering, and iridescence on exterior, and brilliant iridescent weathering and soil encrustation on interior.

For holding ashes of the dead.

Glass cinerary urn, Glass, Roman

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