Glass jug

Roman

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Translucent pale blue green; handle and trails in translucent turquoise blue.
Plain, rounded rim; broad flaring mouth; cylindrical neck; sloping shoulder; squat globular body; pushed-in bottom with central jagged pontil mark; rod handle applied as a pad to shoulder, drawn up and outward, then turned in and downward, and trailed onto rim with upward projection.
One fine trail wound in a spiral around underside of mouth; another thicker trail in relief wound as irregular zigzag pattern around body and then in a spiral up neck.
Broken around rim and mouth with two holes to either side of handle; a few large bubbles, and pinprick bubbles in trail on body; slight pitting, creamy weathering, and iridescence; some soil encrustation on bottom of interior.

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