Glass lentoid aryballos (perfume bottle) 4th-3rd century B.C. Greek Translucent honey brown, with same color handles and cord; trails and blobs in opaque white.Broad flat rim-disk with rounded edge and radiating tooling marks on upper surface; slender cylindrical neck, tapering downwards; sloping shoulder; globular lentoid body; convex bottom; two large vertical ring handles attached to shoulder.A trail attached at edge of rim-disk; a circular marvered blob applied to both faces of body; a large cord, twisted together with a white trail, attached under handles runs down sides and across bottom.Broken and repaired, with large chip in one side of body; some pitting, large patches of milky white weathering and iridescence.Together with the other two similar aryballoi displayed here (17.194.309 and 30.115.7), this bottle belongs to a small group of core-formed glass that may have been made in southern Italy, Sicily, or even Carthage. It has also been suggested that these bottles may have b
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