Glass aryballos (perfume bottle). Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean. Dimensions: H. 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm). Date: late 6th-5th century B.C..Translucent cobalt blue, with same color handles; trails in opaque yellow and opaque turquoise blue. Broad inward-sloping rim-disk; short cylindrical neck, tapering downwards; right-angled shoulder; almost spherical body; convex, somewhat pointed bottom; two vertical ring handles with knobbed tails, applied over trail decoration, extend from shoulder to underside of rim-disk.Yellow trail applied to outer edge of rim-disk; another yellow trail applied on upper body and wound spirally, at first in horizontal lines, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern around central section of body, formed by shallow vertical tooling indents; two thick turquoise blue trails applied over yellow, forming a bold, even design; below this, a single yellow trail wound horizontally around body; a turquoise blue trail applied along outer edge of one handle.Broken
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