Glass perfume bottle

Roman

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Spindle-shaped unguentarium.
Translucent pale blue green.
Horizontal rounded rim with slight vertical lip on top edge; broad mouth; cylindrical neck with tooled indent around base; low, conical body with thick rounded edge at base; pushed-in bottom with central pontil mark.
Intact, but crack running from rim to lower body; many bubbles and blowing striations; pitting, dulling, and brilliant iridescence with patches of brown enamel-like weathering.

Glass perfume bottle, Glass, Roman

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