Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
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Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trail in opaque yellow.
Thick horizontal rim-disk, unevenly shaped with radiating tooling marks on upper surface; cylindrical neck, tapering slightly downward; small sloping shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body; convex bottom; on upper body, two lug handles, applied over trail pattern; one considerably larger than the other.
Trail attached at top of rim-disk, wound spirally round edge, then down across neck, and over body where it is tooled into a close-set feather pattern in five vertical panels of upward and downward strokes, ending around edge of bottom.
Intact; some dulling and iridescent brownish weathering on rim, neck, and upper body.
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