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Neck Fragment with Handles

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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.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Harvard University (by 1978) transfer; to the Fogg Art Museum 1978. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Harvard University
Title: Neck Fragment with Handles
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.

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