Glass amphoriskos (perfume flask)
Translucent, slightly streaky purple, with handles in colorless glass with a smoky green tinge.
Misshapen tubular rim, folded out, over, and in, forming irregular flaring mouth; cylindrical neck; very narrow horizontal shoulder; ovoid body; cylindrical base, with flat but uneven bottom; two small rod handle attached in a claw pad to top of body, drawn up, round, and in, and trailed onto upper part of neck. One prominent continuous mold seam down neck, around body, and across bottom.
On body, frieze of twenty-two downturned rounded ribs on upper body and twenty-eight upturned rounded ribs on lower body, joined by a central band of tendril scrolls bordered above and below by two horizontal raised lines.
Intact; some bubbles; faint iridescence on exterior, some weathering and iridescence on interior.
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