Glass two-handled bottle

Roman

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Translucent light green; handles in blue green.

Thick, outsplayed rim, folded round and in, and flattened into side of small, flaring mouth; tall, cylindrical, slight funnel-shaped neck, with horizontal tooling indent around base; tall, slender, conical body; kick in bottom, with centralmark; twomark; two heavy rod handles, applied as claw pads to top of body, drawn upward, turned in horizattached, attachd to middle and trailednd trailed off above.

Body decorated with many, close-set spiral ribs.

Intact; some pinprick and large bubbles; handles mostly covered with soil encrustation and whitish iridescence weathering; dulling, pitting, and iridescence on exterior, some soil encrustation and whitish iridescence weathering on interior.

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