Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
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Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow.
Uneven, almost horizontal rim-disk, with rounded edge; cylindrical neck; small, sloping shoulder; cylindrical body, with slightly convex sides, tapering in to uneven rounded bottom; two horizontal lug handles applied over trail at top of body.
Two trails applied around edge of rim-disk, wound down in a spiral, both tooled into a feather pattern on body in five panels of alternating upward and downward strokes, then trailed off on bottom.
Intact, but with parts of trails completely weathered, leaving only indentation in body; dulling, severe pitting and weathering, and faint iridescence.
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