Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
Greek, Eastern Mediterranean or Italian
Not on view
Translucent dark cobalt blue, appearing black, with same color handles; single trail in opaque yellow.
Horizontal rim with rounded edge and radiating tooling marks on top surface; cylindrical neck; broad sloping shoulder; ovoid body; pointed bottom; two vertical strap handles applied to shoulder, drawn up in a curve, then turned in and attached to top of neck and underside of rim.
Trail applied below rim, wound spirally twice around neck and drawn down across shoulder to body, tooled into a zigzag pattern with close-set vertical indents around upper half of body, and ending as an uneven horizontal line.
Body complete, but large chip in rim; base-knob missing and crack on lower part of body; only slight dulling and pitting.
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