Glass lentoid aryballos (perfume bottle). Culture: Eastern Mediterranean or Italian. Dimensions: 3 1/2 × 3 1/16 × 2 3/16 in. (8.9 × 7.8 × 5.5 cm)Diam. of rim: 1 9/16 in. (4 cm). Date: late 4th-early 3rd century B.C..Translucent cobalt blue, with handles, coils, and feet in same color; trails in opaque yellow, opaque white, and opaque turquoise blue.Broad rim-disk, sloping inward, made as a spiral coil around top of neck; cylindrical neck, tapering downward; broad, almost horizontal shoulder with rounded outer edge; flattened globular body, with convex sides; shallow convex bottom; two rolled cylindrical feet on either side of bottom; two vertical ring handles attached to shoulder; two coils running down sides between handles and feet.An unmarvered fine yellow trail attached at the edge of rim-disk; another similar yellow trail wound spirally five times round neck; on body, bands of yellow, white, and turquoise blue trails tooled into a feather pattern in thirteen vertical patterns
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