Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
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Translucent blue; handles in translucent greenish yellow; trail in opaque white.
Uneven, slanting rim-disk, with thick rounded edge and sloping inward; thick cylindrical neck, with tooling indents around top; narrow angular shoulder; elongated ovoid body; pointed bottom; vestiges of two vertical handles applied in pads at different heights on shoulder, trailed up neck, and pressed on to top neck; a marvered blob of translucent greenish yellow glass applied over trail on lower body.
Trail applied to rim-disk and wound spirally down, tooled into a feather pattern on body in nine irregular panels of alternating upward and downward strokes, then continuing on lower body in a spiral and ending on pointed bottom.
Body complete, but most of handles missing; dulling, pitting, iridescence, and small areas of milky white weathering.
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