Glass perfume bottle

Roman

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Candlestick unguentarium.
Colorless with bluish tinge.
Tubular rim folded out, over, and in; cylindrical neck flaring downward; convex body, curving out and sharply downward; pushed-in bottom with central kick.
Broken and repaired on body with small hole in edge at base; many bubbles and blowing striations; pitting, iridescence, and patches of creamy brown weathering.

Colorless blown glass "candle-stick" vase with very long neck and wide base.

Glass perfume bottle, Glass, Roman

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