Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
Greek, Eastern Mediterranean or Italian
Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque turquoise blue.
Broad rim-disk, made as a spiral coil around top of neck; broad cylindrical neck; rounded shoulder; almost cylindrical body, with slightly convex sides tapering upwards; almost flat bottom, slightly concave at center; on body, two small solid, rounded knob handles, applied over trail pattern.
A yellow trail attached at edge of rim-disk; a yellow and a turquoise trail applied at top of body, wound down to bottom in a spiral of alternating lines, and tooled into a fairly regular close-set zigzag pattern with alternating upward and downward strokes.
Intact, except for small chip on underside of rim-disk broken; dulling, pitting, and slight iridescent weathering.
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