Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
Opaque white, with handles in same color; trails in translucent purple.
Broad rim-disk, with radiating tools marks on upper surface and small mouth; short cylindrical neck; narrow sloping shoulder; straight-sided body with upward taper; convex bottom; below shoulder, two vertical ring handles with knobbed tails applied over trail decoration.
One trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another applied as an irregular loop over neck and top of body and wound down in spiral six times, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern around middle of body; below this, a third fine trail wound twice horizontally around body.
Intact, apart from minor chips in trail on rim-disk; slight dulling and pitting, and most of body covered with creamy iridescent weathering.
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