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Glass perfume bottle
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Candlestick unguentarium.Colorless with greenish tinge.Rounded rim, pressed into sides of flaring mouth; tall cylindrical neck, flaring downward; sides of wide, flat body expanding sharply outward; broad, pushed-in bottom. Two concentric, wheel-cut (?) lines on body immediately below neck. Intact; pinprick and elongated bubbles; deep pitting and brilliant iridescence with patches of cramy brown weathering.
From Cyprus
Myres, J.L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 5317, p. 509.
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