Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
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Opaque white, with handles in same color but base-knob in translucent purple; trails in translucent purple and opaque white.
Broad, inward-sloping rim-disk; tall, concave neck; rounded shoulder; elongated ovoid body; large circular base-knob with rounded edge and flat bottom; two vertical strap handles drawn up from shoulder, turned in, and pressed on to top of neck.
One fine purple trail attached at edge of rim-disk; a thick layer of purple glass applied to body from shoulder to bottom and an opaque white trail applied over it and tooled into a zigzag pattern with deep vertical tooling indents around upper body; flattened blob of opaque white applied to bottom of knob-base.
Complete but broken and repaired on one side of rim-disk with parts of trail missing; dulling, deep pitting, iridescence, and thick creamy weathering.
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