Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
Greek, Eastern Mediterranean or Italian
Not on view
Translucent pale honey brown, with handles in darker honey brown; trails in opaque yellow, opaque turquoise blue, and opaque white.
Broad horizontal rim-disk, with radiating tooling marks on underside; cylindrical neck, expanding downwards; narrow sloping shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body, with slight upward taper; convex bottom; below shoulder, two vertical ring handles, not pierced through, with short pointed trails, applied over trail pattern.
Traces of a fine (yellow ?) trail attached to lower edge of rim-disk; on body, alternating bands of yellow, turquoise, and white, tooled from shoulder to undercurve at bottom into a close-set feather pattern in eleven vertical panels with alternating upward and downward strokes.
Broken and repaired around body, with several holes and gaps in joins; dulling, some deep pitting holes, and creamy iridescent weathering.
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