Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
Translucent honey brown with same color handles and base-knob; trails in opaque white and opaque yellow.
Horizontal rim with rounded edge and radiating tooling marks on top surface; tall slender cylindrical neck; broad sloping shoulder, slightly concave below handles; ovoid body; coiled base-knob applied to pointed bottom; two vertical handles applied to shoulder, drawn up in a curve, then turned in and down, and attached to top of neck and underside of rim.
White trail applied on neck, wound spirally around and drawn down across shoulder to body; another yellow trail applied to top of body in a band over the white and tooled into a zigzag pattern with close-set vertical indents around top of body; the white trail continues as a zigzag band below, and then as a horizontal line around center of body.
Intact; dulling, pitting, and faint iridescence.
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