Glass alabastron (perfume bottle) late 4th–early 3rd century Greek, Eastern Mediterranean Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque pale turquoise horizontal rim-disk, with radiating tooling marks on upper surface and rough inner edge to mouth; cylindrical, slanting neck; steeply sloping shoulder; slightly bulbous cylindrical body; convex bottom; on body, two lug handles, applied over trail pattern; one with a tooled indent on top, the other flattened into turquoise blue trail attached at edge of rim-disk, wound round and do
Glass alabastron (perfume bottle) late 4th–early 3rd century Greek, Eastern Mediterranean Translucent cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque pale turquoise horizontal rim-disk, with radiating tooling marks on upper surface and rough inner edge to mouth; cylindrical, slanting neck; steeply sloping shoulder; slightly bulbous cylindrical body; convex bottom; on body, two lug handles, applied over trail pattern; one with a tooled indent on top, the other flattened into turquoise blue trail attached at edge of rim-disk, wound round and down in a spiral, forming a band of almost horizontal lines around upper body; a thicker yellow trail added under one handle and wound round middle of body in a spiral over turquoise blue trail; both tooled into an irregular close-set zigzag pattern with upward and downward strokes, forming vertical ribs around body; turquoise trail continueing in a spiral and ending in an almost horizontal line around ; slight dulling and pitting, faint iridescence and small patches of Glass alabastron (perfume bottle) 249834
Size: 4000px × 4000px
Photo credit: © MET/BOT / Alamy / Afripics
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