Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
Opaque white, with knob-base in same color; trail in translucent purple.
Sloping shoulder; tall conical body tapering to rounded point; large circular base-knob with rounded edge and flat bottom.
Thick unmarvered trail wound round in a spiral on shoulder, then tooled on body into zigzag pattern, extending to knob-base, with long vertical tooling indents in alternating upward and downward strokes, forming prominent rounded ribs around body.
Broken and repaired, with rim-disk, neck, handles, and almost half of body missing; some pitting and iridescent weathering.
This broken bottle shows how the interior of the vessel retained considerable traces of the core, made of sand, clay, and a binding agent, around which the molten glass was applied to form the vessel.
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