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Eros, God of Love (00:49:32) 1095 views
Glass perfume bottle
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Candlestick unguentarium.Translucent pale green, with large purplish streak in body and lower part of neck.Thick rim folded out, over, and in; slightly concave, cylindrical neck, tooled in around base; convex sides to body, curving out and downward; slightly concave bottom with off-center pontil scar. Spiral tooling grooves on body. Thick-walled and heavy.Intact; many bubbles; dulling, deep waethering, and faint iridescence.
From Cyprus
Myres, J.L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 5314, p. 509.
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