Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
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Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque white.
Rim-disk with thick rounded edge, uneven with radiating tooling marks on upper surface and projecting jagged inner edge to mouth; straight-sided fusiform body expanding downward, then tapering in to pointed bottom; two horizontal lug handles applied over trail at top of body, one slightly higher than the other.
Thick trail applied around rim; another trail attached at bottom, drawn up in a spiral to point of carination, tooled into a festoon pattern on side with twelve upward strokes, and wound round again in spiral ending on rim.
Intact; some dulling, a few deep pitting holes, and faint iridescence.
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