Glass alabastron (perfume bottle) 2nd-1st century B.C. Greek, Eastern Mediterranean Translucent blue, with handles in light blue green; trail in opaque greyish light blue.Broad slightly inward-sloping rim-disk with thick rounded edge and radiating tooling marks on lower surface; tall cylindrical neck, expanding downward; straight-sided fusiform body expanding downward, then tapering in to pointed bottom; two horizontal lug handles applied over trail at top of body, one with a deep horizontal indent in surface; one small marvered blob of translucent blue on side just below point of greatest diameter.Trail applied at bottom, wound upwards in a spiral to carination, tooled into a close-set feather pattern around side, with fourteen alternating upward and downward strokes, then wound again in a spiral up neck and irregularly to top and edge of rim-disk.Intact, but some internal cracks around body; slight dulling, pitting, and patches of creamy weathering and iridescence.. Glass alabastron
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Image Number: 6145-29197132Royalty FreeCredit Line:Piemags/PL Photography Limited/SuperStockCollection:PL Photography Limited Contributor:Piemags Model Release:NoProperty Release:NoResolution:4000×4000
