Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
Opaque red brown, streaked with sealing wax red, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque turquoise blue.
Broad horizontal rim-disk; cylindrical neck, tapering downwards; narrow rounded shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body, tapering upwards; uneven convex bottom; two large vertical ring handles with knobbed tails, applied over trail decoration; one higher than the other.
A yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; a turquoise blue trail applied to neck, wound in a close-set spiral down body; another yellow trail applied over the turquoise blue in an uneven band around lower body and bottom.
Intact, except for part of one ring handle and one circular hole in bottom; dulling and pitting, and faint iridescence.
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