Glass perfume bottle

Roman

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Colorless with blue-green tinge.

Rim folded out, down, round, and in, with flattened upper surface and lip inside mouth; tall cylindrical neck expanding downward, with deep horizontal tooling indent around base; squat globular body; flat bottom but slightly pushed-in at center.

Complete, except for one hole in neck, repaired and filled; many pinprick bubbles; heavily pitted, brilliant iridescence, and patches of thick enamel-like weathering, and some soil encrustation under rim.

Glass perfume bottle, Glass, Roman

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