A GREEK CORE-FORMED GLASS ALABASTRON Circa 2nd - 1st Century B.C. Of dark blue glass, with two applied lug handles on the shoulder, a band of yellow and white trail around the disc rim spiralling down the neck and then combed into festoons on the tear-shaped body, and spiralling again around the pointed base, 11cm high Provenance: English private collection of Mr J.C., Yorkshire, purchased from Robert Deutsch, Archaeological Centre, Israel, in the late 1980s - early 1990s. Thence by descent.