Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle) 2nd to mid–1st century Greek, Eastern Mediterranean Translucent blue, with same color pad-base; handles in translucent greenish yellow; trail in opaque rim-disk, sloping inward with prominent jagged vertical lip to mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding downward; broad convex sloping shoulder; straight-sided body, tapering downward; small circular pad-base, flattened on underside and with round edge; vestiges of two vertical s-shaped handles on outer edge of shoulder and trail applied to edge of rim-disk, wound spirally down neck an
Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle) 2nd to mid–1st century Greek, Eastern Mediterranean Translucent blue, with same color pad-base; handles in translucent greenish yellow; trail in opaque rim-disk, sloping inward with prominent jagged vertical lip to mouth; cylindrical neck, expanding downward; broad convex sloping shoulder; straight-sided body, tapering downward; small circular pad-base, flattened on underside and with round edge; vestiges of two vertical s-shaped handles on outer edge of shoulder and trail applied to edge of rim-disk, wound spirally down neck and across shoulder, then tooled into a festoon pattern on body with sixteen upward strokes, and continuing in almost horizontal lines around pad-base at and repaired, almost all of handles missing, cracks and small holes on sholuder and top of body; dulling, pitting, iridescent weathering around rim-disk and neck, and creamy brown weathering on body and especially on Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle) 249825
Size: 4000px × 4000px
Photo credit: © MET/BOT / Alamy / Afripics
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