Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

Greek, Eastern Mediterranean or Italian

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Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow.
Broad horizontal rim-disk with radiating tooling marks around narrow mouth; short cylindrical neck; sloping shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body, with upward taper; slightly convex bottom; below shoulder, two vertical ring handles, unpierced, applied over trail pattern.
A yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another yellow trail applied from shoulder in spiral and extending to edge of bottom, tooled into an inverted festoon pattern with eleven unevenly-spaced downward strokes.
Intact; dulling, some deep pitting holes, and faint iridescent weathering.

Glass alabastron (perfume bottle), Glass, Greek, Eastern Mediterranean or Italian

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Glass alabastron (perfume bottle), Glass, Greek, Eastern Mediterranean or Italian
Glass alabastron (perfume bottle), Glass, Greek, Eastern Mediterranean or Italian

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