Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)
Opaque streaky red-brown, with foot in same color; rim-disk and handle in uncertain dark color, appearing opaque black; trails in opaque yellow and opaque turquoise blue.
Applied broad trefoil rim-disk; rather tall cylindrical neck; broad sloping shoulder; ovoid body; applied outsplayed foot with uneven concave bottom; handle attached to edge of shoulder over trail decoration, drawn up and out, then turned in and pressed on to back of neck below rim.
Intermingled yellow and turquoise blue trails attached at edge of rim-disk; a wide yellow trail applied unevenly to neck and wound down spirally across shoulder and around top of body in horizontal lines, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern around upper half of body, at which point a turquoise blue trail is added; below this, another thin yellow trail wound horizontally around body, mixing with a turquoise blue trail; finally, intermingled yellow and turquoise blue trails wound around edge of foot, with yellow ending as a line across bottom. A tooling indent in one side of bottom has interrupted part of the zigzag pattern.
Intact, except for chip in one side of rim-disk; white gritty impurities in handle; slight dulling and 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.
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