Glass aryballos (perfume bottle)
Not on view
Translucent blue, with same color handles; trails in opaque yellow, with another probably in opaque turquoise blue.
Broad inward-sloping rim-disk with vertical projecting lip to mouth; short cylindrical neck; irregular, almost spherical body; convex, slightly projecting bottom; two strap handles applied in long, flattened pads to top of body, drawn up and outward, then curving in and trailed on to underside of rim-disk.
Yellow trail applied to outer edge of rim-disk; another wide yellow trail applied on upper body and wound down in spiral, at first in horizontal lines, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern around central section of body, formed by uneven, shallow vertical tooling indents, and ending on underside in two more horizontal lines; a second trail in turquoise blue probably added to middle of body, mingling with the yellow trail.
Intact; dulling, slight pitting, and iridescent milky weathering.
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