Alabastron

This coloured glass alabastron is made of gold leaf sandwiched between translucent coloured glass sheets.

The rim is broad and flat, the cylindrical neck is made from a separate piece of cut and ground colourless glass and the fusiform body is decorated, from top to bottom, with wavy stripes arranged in three groups of polychrome bands

This alabastron was among a collection of objects which M. Durighello corresponded with Augustus W. Franks about in a later dated 9 April 1895, and to which he referred to as “a Phoenician perfume flask, in beautiful coloured glass … coming from Sidon”.