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Oil flask (alabastron)

mid-4th–late 3rd century B.C.
Place of ManufactureEgypt (probably)
FindspotAssos (Behramkale), Troad, Anatolia (Turkey)
Medium/TechniqueGlass, core-formed with applied decoration
DimensionsHeight x diameter (max.): 13.8 x 3.5 cm (5 7/16 x 1 3/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Archaeological Institute of America
Accession number84.14
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ClassificationsVessels
ProvenanceFrom Assos (Behramkale, Turkey); found in river bed, washed out from some tomb by the spring freshet of1883: excavated by the Archaeological Institute of America; gift of the Archaeological Institute of America to MFA, January 1884.