Glass lentoid aryballos (perfume bottle)
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Semi-opaque dark blue, with handles, coils, and feet in same color; trails in opaque yellow.
Broad sloping horizontal shoulder; flattened globular body, with convex sides; shallow convex bottom; two rolled cylindrical feet on either side of bottom; two vertical ring handles attached to shoulder; two coils running down sides between handles and feet.
An unmarvered fine yellow trail attached at the edge of rim-disk; another similar yellow trail wound spirally round neck; on body, a third trail applied to outer edge of shoulder and tooled into a feather pattern with alternating upward and downward strokes, forming vertical ridges in sides; coils decorated with a spiraling yellow trail.
Broken and partially restored from fragments, about half of body preserved with several unattached fragments of rim, neck, and body; heavily pitted with white iridescent weathering covering all surfaces and broken edges.
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