Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)

Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

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Uncertain color, appearing black, with base-knob in translucent greenish yellow; trails in opaque yellow and opaque white.
Rim-disk, sloping deeply inward, with rounded edge and tooled indent around top of neck; tall cylindrical neck; broad angular shoulder; ovoid body, turning in to almost pointed bottom; vestiges of large knob-base; very slight vestiges of two vertical strap handles applied over trails on shoulder and pressed on to sides of neck.
Yellow trail applied to top of neck and wound spirally down and across shoulder, a second thin white trail applied around neck, then both tooled into a close-set festoon pattern to lower body, with twenty-five uneven upward strokes, and continuing in thick spiral lines to pointed bottom.
Body complete but most of handles and base-knob missing, with most of trails completely weathered, leaving only indentations in body; dulling, severe pitting, and iridescence.

Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle), Glass, Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

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