Glass aryballos (perfume bottle)
Translucent cobalt blue, with same color handles; trails in opaque yellow and opaque turquoise blue.
Broad inward-sloping rim-disk with uneven upper surface; short concave neck; uneven angular shoulder; almost spherical body; convex pointed bottom; two large ring handles with knobbed tails, applied over trail decoration, extend from shoulder to neck and underside of rim-disk.
A yellow trail applied to outer edge of rim-disk; another yellow trail applied to outer edge of shoulder and wound down in spiral, at first in horizontal lines, then tooled into an irregular close-set zigzag pattern around central section of body, formed by uneven, shallow vertical tooling indents; a second trail in turquoise blue added to zigzag, mingling with the yellow trail; below, a yellow trail wound horizontally twice round body; a short unmarvered yellow trail applied to bottom.
Intact, but some small internal cracks in side of body; dulling, pitting, and faint iridescence.
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