Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
Opaque dark red brown, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque turquoise blue.
Broad slightly uneven horizontal rim-disk; cylindrical neck; rounded shoulder; straight-sided cylindrical body with slight upward taper; convex bottom; two vertical ring handles with knobbed tails, applied over trail decoration.
Intermingled yellow and turquoise blue trails attached at edge of rim-disk; a yellow trail applied to bottom of neck and a turquoise blue trail applied to top of body and overlaid on the yellow; both wound in a spiral around top of body, then tooled first into an inverted festoon and lower down into a close-set zigzag pattern; the yellow trail continuing in a spiral around bottom.
Broken and repaired, with several holes and chips in body; dulling, pitting, and faint iridescent weathering.
During the fifth century B.C., the colors of Mediterranean Group I vessels expanded from blue or opaque white to include dark green, golden brown, and opaque brick red.