Glass aryballos (perfume bottle). Culture: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean. Dimensions: H.: 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm). Date: late 6th-5th century B.C..Translucent cobalt blue, with same color handles; trails in opaque turquoise blue and opaque yellow. Broad inward-sloping oval rim-disk with radiating tooling marks on upper surface; cylindrical neck; almost horizontal shoulder; almost spherical body; convex, slightly pointed bottom; two ring handles with knobbed tails, applied over trail decoration, extend from shoulder to neck .A turquoise blue trail applied to outer edge of rim-disk; a broad yellow trail applied on upper body and wound down in spiral, at first in horizontal lines, then tooled into a close-set zigzag pattern around central section of body, formed by uneven vertical tooling indents; a second trail in turquoise blue added to zigzag, mingling with the yellow trail; below, a yellow trail and two turquoise blue trails wound horizontally once round body.Intact; dulling, pitting, a
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