Glass aryballos (perfume bottle)
Translucent blue, with same color handles; trails in opaque yellow and opaque pale turquoise blue.
Broad inward-sloping rim-disk; cylindrical neck; angular shoulder; almost spherical body; convex, slightly flattened bottom; two vertical ring handles with flattened tails, applied over trail decoration, extend from shoulder to neck.
Yellow trail applied to outer edge of rim-disk; another yellow trail applied unevenly on shoulder and wound spirally down, at first in horizontal lines, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern around central section of body; turquoise blue trails applied over yellow, also forming part of the zigzag pattern; below this, a yellow trail wound horizontally twice around body.
Intact; white gritty impurities in body; dulling and pitting, and patches of milky weathering and iridescence.
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