Glass alabastron (perfume bottle) late 6th-5th century B.C. Greek, Eastern Mediterranean Translucent blue, with handles in opaque yellow; trails in opaque yellow.Broad flat rim-disk with rough edge to mouth; very short concave cylindrical neck; narrow uneven shoulder; straight-sided body with upward taper; convex bottom, slightly flattened to one side; below shoulder, two vertical ring handles with knobbed tails applied over trail decoration; one slightly higher than the other.One trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another applied at top of body and wound down in spiral six times, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern around the central part of body, formed by shallow vertical tooling indents; below this, trail wound twice horizontally around lower body.Intact, except for knob on tail of one handle; slight dulling and pitting, and most of body, especially the trails, covered with creamy iridescent weathering.. Glass alabastron (perfume bottle) 245462
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