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Ptolemaic Period
The rim of this small faience bottle is missing, and the decoration not very clear. Three narrow registers of vegetal (?) ornament, the top one apparently garlands, lie below the rim. Most of the body is covered with a woven pattern.
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Title: Biconical alabastron with zones of bichrome decoration
Period: Ptolemaic Period
Date: 332–30 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt
Medium: Faience
Dimensions: H. 12.7 × Greatest diam. 2.5 cm (5 × 1 in.)
Credit Line: Purchase, Fletcher Fund and The Guide Foundation Inc. Gift, 1966
Object Number: 66.99.126
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